the Declaration of the independence of mind is a Manifeste written by Romain Roland and published in the daily newspaper Humanity of June 26th 1919, cosigné in particular by Henri Barbusse, Albert Einstein or Bertrand Russel.

Context

Intellectuals and scientists within the Sacred union

At the time of the declaration of the First World War, the large majority of the intellectuals and scientists of the two camps was to join “the Sacred union” around a cause estimated just on both sides. Thus, a philosopher as Henri Bergson opened the meeting of the Academy of Science morals and political of August 8th, 1914 by these words: Academy achieves a simple scientific duty while announcing in the brutality and the cynicism of Germany, in its contempt of any justice and any truth, a regression in a wild state. This speech day before, it is at the university of the Sorbonne that was accommodated, under the presidency of the senior of the Faculty of Science Paul Appell, a meeting during which the various political clouts of the country (of S.F.I.O to the French Action) were officially to put side their disagreements in order to be linked against the enemy commun.
As indicates it Jean-François Sirinelli in his history of engagements of the French intellectuals during the 20th century, in the intellectual medium also, “it is the sacred union which dominated, union heard not only within the meaning of one agreement of the political main forces, but also of a convergence of analysis of most of the national community. ”

German side the same frame of mind is of setting, and on October 4th, 1914, eighty thirteen intellectuals of international repute (of which a physicist of the scale of max Planck) sign a '' Appel of the German Intellectuals with the civilized Nations '' in which they affirm their support for “the Juste and noble cause of Germany. ”

Radiation of Romain Roland

The proclamation

Signatories and reactions

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