to us, did we not feel ourselves at the same time
bound to the earth.

He has returned to the earth--that earth which
belonged to him, that earth to which he belonged.
They have again taken possession of each other, and
his spirit is even now warming and humanizing her.
Beneath the torrents of blood shed upon his tomb
the new life and the peace of tomorrow are already
springing. It was a favorite and often repeated
thought of Jaurès, as of Heraclitus of old, that
nothing can interrupt the flow of things, that "peace
is only a form or aspect of war, war only a form
or aspect of peace, and what is conflict today is the
beginning of the reconciliation of tomorrow."

R. R.

Journal de Genève, August 2, 1915.

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