The Index

Three Dollars a Year.

LIBERTY AND LIGHT.

Single Copies Seven Cents.

Volume 6

Boston, Mass., Thursday, March 4, 1875.

Whole no. 271

Contents of page 1:

ORGANIZE!:
The Demands of Liberalism

Our thanks are due to Mr. George Hess...

From a letter just received from an English gentleman...

Our thanks are due to Mr. George Hess, the well-known sculptor of New York, for his superb busts of David Friedrich Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach. They are executed with great skill in plaster, and will nobly adorn a free-thinker’s library or study. Feuerbach has a head like one of the old Greek philosophers, with a long beard and an expression of great boldness, force, and subtilty of thought. But Strauss fascinates us completely. His face is smooth-shaven, with lines of character and intellect that marvellously appeal to the sympathies and the imagination. A gentle melancholy is shadowed about the firm mouth and chin, and remind one almost painfully of the relentless persecution that he was called to endure so long; while the fine eye and grand forehead tell of the integrity, pride, and valor of soul that made Strauss—

“One of the few, immortal names
That were not born to die.”

It is a face to gaze at long and reverently, for it is the face of a scholar, thinker, hero. The two busts together are the monuments of the best German mind of the nineteenth century, and will stimulate the highest life of him who is capable of appreciating the grandeur of the men they bring so vividly to view. Mr. Hess is to be congratulated on his remarkable success. The price is five dollars apiece; and the busts may be obtained either of the sculptor himself at 71 Amity Street, New York city, or of Schönhof & Möller, 40 Winter Street, Boston.