Francisco Ferrer; his life, work and martyrdom, with message written ...

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40 Francisco Ferrer_,
a scientific terminology, informs his farewell message
to the world. The concluding words of this message
are these
"Happiness, then, as \vc understand it, is not simple personal
pleasure. It is individual, of course, in the sense that 'each one
is the artisan of his own happiness,' but it is true, real, profound,
complete, only in extending itself to all humanity. It may well
be that sorrows, accidents, diseases, death even, cannot be escaped;
but man, by associating himself with man for a work of
which he comprehends the significance and of which he knows
the effect, possesses the certainty of helping to direct toward the
best the great human body of which his own individual cell is
only an infinitely small part—a millionth part of a millionth part,
if one counts past generations and not merely the actual inhabitants
of the earth enumerated by the censuses. It is not such or
such a standard of personal and collective existence which constitutes
happiness ; it is the consciousness of advancing toward a
definite goal, a goal desired and partially created by the will.
Thus the will of man constructs and re-constructs the world.
To make the most of the continents, the seas and the enveloping
atmosphere, to cultivate our terrestrial garden and so regulate
environment as to favor each individual life of plant, of animal
and of man, to acquire a definitive consciousness of the solidarity
of our humanity with itself and with the planet, to embrace in a
single view our origins, our present, our immediate aims, our remote
destiny, this it is which constitutes genuine happiness and
genuine development. All resistance to this ideal will yield, and
even yield without a struggle. The day will come when evolution
and revolution, succeeding each other immediately—from the
desire to the deed and from the idea to the realization—will
mingle and be fused in one and the same phenomenon.
"However short our lives may be as compared with the slow
evolutions of humanity, several among us will assist perhaps at
these great changes, and all of us, with a little attention, may
decipher the fore-running signs."
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