“Let us note the disasters to which the almost complete abdication of the intelligence of the world and its voluntary subjection to the unleashed forces led. And in doing so, they have degraded, lowered, degraded the thought, of which they were the representatives. The centenary of the declaration is historically relevant as the anti-libertarian tendencies permeated the world over, amidst a ‘world.., wild with delirium of hatred’. As one of the greatest-ever humanists, he urged people from all walks of life to take the lesson from the WW-I. Stefan Zweig, biographer of Rolland, captured the spirit of the declaration that harps on the only law 'that of brotherhood; its only enemies are hatred and arrogance between nations’.

Source: dna August 02, 2019 01:41 UTC