Auguste Blanqui, a French socialist writer

Page 174. 1. les miroitantes visions, etc., the shimmering visions of some diatorted impressions of reaUty, fantasticaUy conibined,

2. qui fut comme filtrée en nous, which for a whUe seems to hâve filtered and passed through iis.

Page 175. 1. vers le grand devenir où s'élabore l'Être, toward that gréai possibiîity where the pure and absolute being is formed. Note that this line of Clemenceau's prose reads like a fine ''alexandrine" verse. Oftentimes éloquence leads Clemenceau toward lyricism.

2. si l'univers est à son point mort, if the worldhas corne to ifs dead center.

3. De l'amibe à l'homme intense, /rom the amœha (the lowest form of life) to strentumsmankind,

4. nolonté, no-^wiU, loch of activityf inertness. The word is a neologism.

Page 176. 1. Pascal, French philosopher (1623-1662), author of les Pensées. This is Pascal's real statement: *^Quand Vunivers Vécraserait Vhomme serait encore plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait quHl meurtf et l'avantage que Vunivers a sur lui, Vunivers n'en sait rien,"

2. L'homme vivant qui passe, etc., the transierU but living man has another superiority, no less décisive, over the impassive absolute which is but does not hâve life,

3. le monde intérieur où s'objective l'autre, the internai world where the extemal world becomes objective. -

Page 177. 1. dont la victoire n'est que l'engrenage, etc., whose victory is caught in the cogs of the coming defeat.

Page 181. 1. Tolstoï, Russian novelist (1828-1910), who had just written a book on patriotism as adverse to Christian feelings. The French title of the book is V Esprit chrétien et le patriotisme (1894).

2. La Revue Blanche, a French periodical with an advanced social and artistic program (1889-1903).