Tag: Joseph de Maistre
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Aztecs and Human Sacrifice
Thus “family values” do not refer to the bourgeois nuclear family as commonly assumed today. The Vedas show that the “family” encompasses generations.
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What is a Nation
The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite. ~ Ernest Renan In 1882, the one-time seminarian turned positivist historian, Ernest Renan, delivered his influential lecture “What is a nation”. That the question even arises is a sign of modernity and Renan’s ultimate answer seems far from the answer of Western ruling elite today. In…
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The Spirit of Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was an Hermetist (in the school of Martines de Pasqually and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), Traditionalist, Reactionary, European, and a source of the Russian Idea. In his Self-Defense, Julius Evola includes Maistre among those well-bred men holding sane and normal views common prior to the French Revolution. In this brief review of the…
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Scientific Clarity and Assurance
What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science.
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Little Big Last Man
The Constitution of 1795, like its predecessors, was made for man. But there is no such thing as man in the world. In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my…