''
``Dared?'' said Jane. ``You don't look like the frightened
sort.''
``Not on account of myself,'' explained Selma. ``On account of
the cause. You see, we are fighting for a new idea. So, we have
to be careful not to offend people's prejudices about ideas not
so important. If we went in for everything that's sensible, we'd
be regarded as cranks. One thing at a time.''
Jane's glance shifted to the fourth picture. ``Didn't you say
that was--Karl Marx?''
``Yes.''
``He wrote a book on political economy. I tried to read it at
college. But I couldn't. It was too heavy for me. He was a
Socialist--wasn't he?--the founder of Socialism?''
``A great deal more than that,'' replied Selma. ``He was the
most important man for human liberty that ever lived--except
perhaps one.'' And she looked at Leonardo's ``man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief.''
``Marx was a--a Hebrew--wasn't he?''
Selma's eyes danced, and Jane felt that she was laughing at her
hesitation and choice of the softer word. Selma said:
``Yes--he was a Jew. Both were Jews.''
``Both?'' inquired Jane, puzzled.
``Marx and Jesus,'' explained Selma.
Jane was startled. ``So HE was a Jew--wasn't He?''
``And they were both labor leaders--labor agitators. The first
one proclaimed the brotherhood of man. But he regarded this
world as hopeless and called on the weary and heavy laden masses
to look to the next world for the righting of their wrongs.
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