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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre

Isaiah Berlin

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The Great Law of the Violent Destroying of Living Creatures

Man's violent preoccupation was in blood and death. In french, this becomes a kind of litany. This read im master's famous and terrible vision of life. It does belong to very different world from the world which he is usually attributed to. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end or pause. Until evil is extinct, until the death of death.

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