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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
January 29, 1926
Unforgettable man, to have soared to such heights of humanity through so much hardship and suffering!
I revered you as an artist and apostle of love for mankind many years before I saw you. I myself have always advocated the love for mankind not out of sentimentality or idealism but for sober, economic reasons: because in the face of our instinctual drives and the world as it is I was compelled to consider this love as indispensable for the preservation of the human species as, say, technology.
When I finally came to know you personally I was surprised to find that you hold strength and energy in such high esteem, and that you yourself embody so much will power.
May the next decade bring you nothing but fulfillment.
Most cordially
Your
Sigm. Freud, aetat. seventy
Freud's contribution to the Liber Amicorum Romain Rolland, edited by Maxim Gorki, Georges Duhamel, and Stefan Zweig. Rothapfel-Verlag, Zürich, 1926. (“To Romain Rolland,” Standard Ed., 20.)