Page:Madame Rolland (Blind 1886).djvu/265

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
AVE LIBERTAS.
255

into realities. Lives that shall illumine the path where others are groping, kindle the moral energies of men; lives such as Madame Roland's stirring her sex to a generous emulation, handing on, as she falls, the sacred tradition of heroes and martyrs.