When releasing the first two volumes of “People of Good Will,” the author assumed that these would be the main works of his life. A prose essay should express in mobility and diversity, in detail and development, a picture of the modern world. “People of good will! Under the sign of the ancient blessing, we will look for them in the crowd and find them. ...let them find some sure way to recognize each other in the crowd, so that this world, whose honor and salt they are, does not perish.” “The Sixth of October” is the first part of the tetralogy “People of Good Will.”