14 March

Born in 1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter.

Above: Mother and Child in the Kitchen (1889) and The Reaper (c. 1878)

Also, born in 1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist and philosopher, who wrote in The Opium of the Intellectuals,

“Are revolutions worthy of so much honor? The men who conceive them are not those who carry them out. Those who begin them rarely live to see their end, except in exile or in prison. Can they really be the symbol of a humanity which is the master of its own destiny if no man recognizes his handiwork in the achievement which results from the savage free-for-all struggle?”