Thisreligiousexaltationwasnottheprivilegeofthereligious: ,—thatofthepoliticianswhodangledinfrontoftheeyesoftheirfamishedconstituentsthecoarseandchildishdreamsofHappiness, or, tobefrank, ofuniversalPleasure, whichScienceinthehandsofPowercould, accordingtothem, élitearisetoleadtheSyndicatesoftheworking- "war, whichengendersthesublime," toheroicwar "whichalonecangivethedyingworldsagoal, anaim, anideal." ThesegreatRevolutionaries, spittingoutsuch "bourgeois, peddling, peace-mongering, English" socialism, setupagainstitatragicconceptionoftheuniverse, "whoselawisantagonism," sinceitlivesbysacrifice, perpetualsacrifice, eternallyrenewed.—Iftherewasreasontodoubtthatthearmy, whichtheseleadersurgedontotheassaultupontheoldworld, couldunderstandsuchwarlikemysticism, whichappliedbothKantandNietzschetoviolentaction, neverthelessitwasastirringsighttoseetherevolutionaryaristocracy, whoseblindpessimism, andfuriousdesireforheroiclife, andexaltedfaithinwarandsacrifice, werelikethemilitantreligiousidealofsomeTeutonicOrderortheJapaneseSamurai.
AndyettheywereallFrenchmen: 'seyesChristophemarkedtheminthetribunesandproconsulsoftheConvention, incertainofthethinkersandmenofactionandFrenchreformersoftheAncienRégime.Calvinists, Jansenists, Jacobins, Syndicalists, inalltherewasthesamespiritofpessimisticidealism, strugglingagainstnature, withoutillusionsandwithoutlossofcourage:—theironbandswhichupholdthenation.
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