The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
Author:Joseph de Maistre
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: French Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780141941660
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-08-26T23:00:00+00:00
Seventh Dialogue
The Chevalier
This time, Senator, I hope you will keep your promise, and tell us something about war.
The Senator
I am quite ready to do so, for this is a subject on which I have meditated a great deal. I have been thinking about war ever since I began to think; this terrible subject has seized my full attention, and yet I have never gone into it deeply enough.
The first thing I am going to tell you will undoubtedly astonish you, but for me it is an incontestable truth: âGiven man with his reason, his feelings, and his affections, there is no way of explaining how war is humanly possible.â This is my well considered opinion. Somewhere La Bruyère describes this great human absurdity with all his characteristic energy. It was many years ago when I read this piece, but I still recall it perfectly. He insists strongly on the folly of war; yet, the more foolish it is, the less explicable.
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