The inscription is a better "likeness" than is the bust; the only thing missing are the words "in vain." The almost-explicit suggestion is that the "struggle for Right and Justice" continues in the New Era; the difference is that people no longer place faith in the nation-state as the means of achieving it. Note that the bust of Don Jose, the allegory of nationalism, is in a church, suggesting that the national ideal has been subsumed by the religious.