“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.” Shelley.
Chapter IX
THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS OF THE LATIN QUARTER
“When the students sing the Carmagnole, France trembles.”
“The monarchy of July persecuted the cancan, which historically seems to have been the anarchy of the period.”—Aurélien Scholl.