Vicariously they died.

With a few exceptions, their very names remain unknown.
But let us hasten to confess that their vicarious suffering stayed the onset of despotism and achieved our liberty.

They ransomed us from serfdom and bought our liberty with a great price.

Compared to those, our bravest deeds do seem but brambles to the oaks at whose feet they grow.
Having made much of the principles of the solidarity of society, science is now engaged in emphasizing the principle of vicarious service and suffering.

The consecrated blood of yesterday is seen to be the social and spiritual capital of to-day.