Georges Duhamel

An epigraph from Georges Duhamel emphasizes the fervent individualism exemplified in the book. In translation it reads: Real strength, real courage, and the only genius in this huge ant-heap of ours, lies in going where...

Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell , Hermann Hesse , Emily Greene Balch , Romain Rolland , Georges Duhamel , and Paul Birukoff (Tolstoy 's secretary and biographer).