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90 Francisco Ferrer, FERRER AND THE TWO ORPHAN BOYS Jaime \'idal, who knew Ferrer in Barcelona, tells a story of how the founder of the ^Modern School went to ]\Iontjuich prison a few years ago, after a wholesale shooting- of radicals there, to take charge of two children whose father had been killed. On his way back to Paris he saw in a station of Port-Bon, on the French border, Lieutenant Portas, the man who inflicted tortures wath redhot irons on the bodies of the Montjuich prisoners. Ferrer placed the two orphan boys face to face with the lieutenant, saying : "Look at this man ; he is the murderer of your father." It is needless to say that a sensation was created among the travelers at the station, and the lieutenant, with shame reddening his face, attempted to attack Ferrer, throwing one of his gloves in the professor's face as an invitation to fight a duel. Ferrer serenely accepted the challenge, saying that he would wait for the lieutenant on the France-Belgian border. The officer never appeared at the appointed place, and Ferrer continued his journey to Paris, where the boys were placed in school, receiving from the friend of their father both education and affectionate care. IN « it' Vi COMMEMORATION OF FERRER Ten thousand people took part in a recent demonstration in memory of Ferrer, organized in connection with the Free-Thought Congress in Brussels. At half-past ten on August 23, 1910, the foreign delegates took up the places reserved for them in the Maison du Roi. Later representatives of about 60 of the Belgian Freethought Societies—which to-day number some 290, representing some 20,cxx) members—marched into the Grand Place, each with its banner flying and with numerous bands. When the groups were assembled in the square, a large marble slab let into the pavement at the foot of the steps of the historic liaison du Roi was unveiled, bearing a suitable inscription. The presence of Mme. Soledad Villafranca, a beautiful woman, but a pathetic figure in her simple black dress, lent additional interest to an impressive ceremony.
THE His Life and Work. 91 A MODERN SCHOOL IN AMERICA prospectus of the Modern School established in Salt Lake City under the leadership of William Thurston Brown, who lately resigned from the Unitarian pulpit, has been issued. The preamble to the prospectus says "The time has come for a definite, concerted movement in which open-minded, free-thinking people can heartily unite for the spread of modern scientific knowledge as applied to the problems of personal and social life. "The greatest enemy of human life is ignorance—its greatest friend is knowledge. "The difference between Germany and Spain, for example, is the difference between knowledge and ignorance. Germany leads the world in science—and in the growth and power of its democracy. Spain is the most illiterate nation in Europe—and its population is the most enslaved. "Ignorance is the mother of tyranny, corruption, moral decay and slavery. Knowledge is the only key to power, freedom, justice, solidarity. "Never before have men faced such menacing problems as we are facing : the problems of poverty, graft, moral indifference, and the sinister forms of tyranny moral, political, and economic. Unless we destroy these evils, they will destroy us. "Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish educator and martyr, saw clearly that the only way to justice and freedom for the people of Spain is through popular knowledge. Ignorant Spain must remain enslaved Spain. Enlightened Spain will be free Spain. So he started the Modern School, whose sole purpose was to give to the common working people of Spain the facts and teachings of modern science. "To a church that lives by superstition and a state based on ignorance and exploitation the Modern School was a capital crime, and its founder was shot. "The problems of America are as critical for America as those of Spain are for Spain. At bottom, they are the same. And here, as there, the only road to justice and freedom is through popular knowledge of evolutionary science."
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