The Executioner (Penguin Great Ideas) by Joseph de Maistre

Author:Joseph de Maistre [Maistre, Joseph de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141941660
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-12-05T05:00:00+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: ‘Given man with his reason, his feelings, and his affections, there is no way of explaining how war is humanly possible.’ 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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