LITERATURE AND FREEDOM--THE PROPAGANDIST PLAYWRIGHT I A nation's literature is an index to its mind.

If the nation has its freedom to win, from its literature may we learn if it is passionately in earnest in the fight, or if it is half-hearted, or if it cares not at all.

Whatever state prevails, passionate men can pour their passion through literature to the nation's soul and make it burn and move and fight.

For this reason it is of transcendent importance to the Cause.
Literature is the Shrine of Freedom, its fortress, its banner, its charter.

In its great temple patriots worship; from it soldiers go forth, wave its challenge, and fight, and conquering, write the charter of their country.