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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre

Isaiah Berlin

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The Executioner

All greatness, all power, all subordination rests on him and him alone. He is the terror and he is the bond of human association. Remove this mysterious agent from the world, and in an instant, order yields to chaos. The pope must be the master of mankind. This is the root and nd and centre of nestr's ultramontanism. Man will rip other men to pieces. His imagination swings between two extremes. On one side, extreme punishment. And that is rearly what the french revolution aiy did induce in him. Yet, he certainly doesn't believe, for example, in military government. He wants govermeto be ancient.

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