The Cry For Justice - July 1916

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The Cry for Justice: A Ant An Appreciation

I want to say a few words to you to night regardi one of the most powerful & inspir books that has ever come to my notice. It is entitled "The Cry for Justice" an anthology of the literaturey social protest. It is Edited by Upton Sinclair with an introduction by Jack London. It contains excerpts fr seel selected of the world renowned writers on arcelogical & industrial problems with translations from 25 languages & coverin a period of five thousand years. The names of the men & women whose burning words adorn these well might 900 pages place the stamp & seal of authority on this remarkable work. They are the names of men & women of all ages down to the present time who as Jack London has said were givers & servers, seers & humanists. They were and are men & women who were emancipated from the small, the puny & the petty & conceived of life in not in terms of profit but of service. I don't know of any one book of this nature that has given me greater inspiration, filled me with greater enthusiasm & enlarged to such a a greater degree the whole horizon of life than this book. Clear eyed & unafraid

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these commissioners of humanity have brought us the conclusions of their Experiences of life all of them having delved & dipped into the very vitals of our civilization. Their sole desire too has been to not merely to speak of things as they are & were, but to help, benefit & serve humanity. The nobility of purose that characterizes & runs through every page of this great volume becomes readily patent obvious to the most casual reader. On [ ] review, this most wonderful compliation, we can see the master minds of various [ ] & civilizations standing on the mountain peaks flashing their thoughts tolike search lights upon a groping struggling world bungling or blundering its way towards freedom. It has been called by many who have examined the Book while yet in manuscript -- a new Bible. It And I don't wonder for as the compiler has said in his preface It is a Bible of the future, or gospel of the new hope for the race. Two questions have been asked of each writer before their inclusion acceptance was decided upon. "Have you had something vital to say? And

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Have you said it with some special effectiveness.? As an example of the contents of this amazing collection of precious thoughts, I will read the [] ^st for you a poem of the John Masefield I suppose the greatest liv poet today -- entitled "Consecration" that forms the openi of this work: (READ.)

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