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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Introduction vii

I. Savonarola (1452-1498) 3

II. William the Silent (1533-1584) 27

III. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) 59

IV. Cervantes (1547-1616) 79

V. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) 99

VI. Grotius (1583-1645) 121

VII. Voltaire (1694-1778) 147

VIII. Hans Andersen (1805-1875) 173

IX. Mazzini (1805-1872) 201

X. William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) 223

XI. Thoreau (1817-1862) 245

XII. Tolstoy (1828-1910) 269

Bibliography 311