His ideal was a culture for all Europe, but
with a Latin base."
Julius von Hartrott replied most disdainfully to this, repeating the
Spaniard's very words. Men who thought much said many things. Besides,
Nietzsche was a poet, completely demented at his death, and was no
authority among the University sages. His fame had only been recognized
in foreign lands. . . . And he paid no further attention to the youth,
ignoring him as though he had evaporated into thin air after his
presumption. All the professor's attention was now concentrated on
Desnoyers.
"This country," he resumed, "is dying from within. How can you doubt
that revolution will break out the minute war is declared? . . .
Have you not noticed the agitation of the boulevard on account of the
Caillaux trial? Reactionaries and revolutionists have been assaulting
each other for the past three days. I have seen them challenging one
another with shouts and songs as if they were going to come to blows
right in the middle of the street. This division of opinion will become
accentuated when our troops cross the frontier. It will then be civil
war. The anti-militarists are clamoring mournfully, believing that it
is in the power of the government to prevent the clash. . . . A country
degenerated by democracy and by the inferiority of the triumphant Celt,
greedy for full liberty! .
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