Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey

Author:Francis Parker Yockey [Yockey, Francis Parker]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Philosophy, Political, Political Science, History & Theory
ISBN: 9780956183576
Google: hImTAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0939482614
Publisher: Noontide Press
Published: 2008-11-01T23:00:00+00:00

People

The creation of a race by History is clear. It is an example of the biological following the spiritual. For this process to reach its highest potential a certain time is necessary — two or three generations are needed for the type of the racial ideal to fasten on to a populationstream and give it its own distinct outer look, corresponding to its inner unique superpersonal soul.

People is a word on a different plane of thinking from this. We are familiar with its polemical use by the democratic mob to deny existence to qualitative elements and assert pure and simple quantity as “the People.” We seek, however, facts. What is a people? What is its articulation?

Two French thinkers contributed to the 19th century valuable insight into the nature of all human groups whatever. Gustave le Bon and René Worms both saw and set forth with Cartesian clarity the organic nature of human groups, the superpersonal unity which was the custodian of the Destiny of the group. Worms applied it upward — to the State. Le Bon applied it downwards — to the crowd. Their presentation was not entirely free of materialistic tendencies — “Truth belongs to the individual, Error belongs to the Age,” said Goethe — but they gave to the West a glimpse along the path of History. Their contribution was ignored by the Age of Rationalism. The pure materialism of William Paley was preferred: a people is “only a collection of the citizens who compose it.” Again: “The happiness of a people is made up of the happiness of single persons.” This stupid anti-factual picture could not be refuted, for it was a faith. The picture reflected the Spirit of the Age, and could only pass away with the expiration of that spirit. It was a picture that sprang from a certain soul, and even though it denied the soul, yet it was tied to the existence of that one certain soul.

The new age is one of Resurgence of Authority, both spiritual and political. This Age bases its political formula on facts, on the actualizing of the possible. It does not dream up an ideal picture, and then try to change the vocabulary of the world-of-action. It does not wish to delude itself into thinking that changing words will transform fact. It wishes to orient itself to facts, and above all to the repository of facts, History, and the driving force of facts, Destiny.

To understand what a people is, one must begin with the smallest human group, the crowd. It strikes one immediately that there are two types of crowds. There is the crowd assembled on an intellectual basis — the attendance at a lecture, at a drama, at a social function. Then there is the crowd assembled on a spiritual basis — a political meeting, a religious agitation, a protest, a riot.

The first type is a mere collection. The individuals repel one another, figuratively and literally. These crowds have as many viewpoints as there are individuals in them.

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