In Peace 



Millet's " Man of the Hoe " is not 

 the product of oppression. He is primi- 

 tive, aboriginal. His lineage has always 

 been that of the clown and swineherd. 

 The heavy jaw and slanting forehead 

 can be found in the oldest mounds and 

 tombs of France. The primitive man 

 of Neanderthal was a man of the hoe, 

 and through the days of the Gauls 

 and Romans men of similar type 

 existed. The "lords and masters of 

 the earth" can prove an alibi when 

 accused of the fashioning of the terrible 

 shape of this primitive man. And 

 men of this shape persist to-day in 

 regions never invaded by our social or 

 political tyranny, and their kind is older 

 than any existing social order. 



That he is " chained to the wheel of 

 labor " is the result, not the cause, of 

 his impotence. In dealing with him, 

 therefore, we are far from the " labor 

 problem " of to-day, far from the work- 



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