The Iron Heel

“At first, this Earth, a stage so gloomed with woe
    You almost sicken at the shifting of the scenes.
And yet be patient. Our Playwright may show
    In some fifth act what this Wild Drama means.”

THE IRON HEEL

FOREWORD

It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historicaldocument. To the historian it bristles with errors—not errors of fact,but errors of interpretation. Looking back across the seven centuries that havelapsed since Avis Everhard completed her manuscript, events, and the bearingsof events, that were confused and veiled to her, are clear to us. She lackedperspective. She was too close to the events she writes about. Nay, she wasmerged in the events she has described.

Nevertheless, as a personal document, the Everhard Manuscript is of inestimablevalue. But here again enter error of perspective, and vitiation due to the biasof love. Yet we smile, indeed, and forgive Avis Everhard for the heroic linesupon which she modelled her husband. We know to-day that he was not socolossal, and that he loomed among the events of his times less largely thanthe Manuscript

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