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42. John Morley, Notes on Politics and History (New York: Macmillan Company, 1914), pp. 69–70.
43. Angelica Balabanoff, My Life as a Rebel (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938), p. 156.
44. Frank Wilson Price, “Sun Yat-sen,” Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences.
45. Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae. According to Luther, “Disobedience is a greater sin than murder, unchastity, theft and dishonesty….” Quoted by Jerome Frank, Fate and Freedom (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1945), p. 281.
46. See Sections 78 and 80.
47. Genesis 11:4.
48. Hermann Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism (Chicago: Alliance Book Corporation, 1939), p. 48.
49. Ibid., p. 40.
50. Ernest Renan, Antichrist (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897), p. 381.
51. Montaigne, Essays, Modern Library edition (New York: Random House, 1946), p. 374.
52. A young Nazi to I. A. R. Wylie shortly before the Second World War. I. A. R. Wylie, “The Quest of Our Lives,” Reader’s Digest, May, 1948, p. 2.
PART 4
Chapter XV
1. See examples in Section 106.
2. G. E. G. Catlin, The Story of the Political Philosophers (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939), p. 633.
3. Quoted by Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections (New York: Macmillan Company, 1896), p. 331.
4. Multatuli, Max Havelaar (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1927). Introduction by D. H. Lawrence.
5. Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931). Introduction, p. viii.
6. Henry Thoreau, Waiden, Modern Library edition (New York: Random House, 1937), p. 70.
7. In his letter to the Archbishop of Mainz accompanying his theses. Quoted by Frantz Funck-Brentano, Luther (London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1939), p. 65.
8. Quoted by Jerome Frank, Fate and Freedom (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1945), p. 281.
9. Ibid., p. 133.
10. “Reformation,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.
11. René Fülöp Miller, Leaders, Dreamers and Rebels (New York: The Viking Press, 1935), p. 85.
12. Ernest Renan, Antichrist (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897), p. 245.
13. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History. Abridgement by D. C. Somervell (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1947), p. 423.
14. Carlton J. H. Hayes, The Historical Evolution of Modern Nationalism (New York: R. R. Smith, 1931), p. 294.
15. Pascal, Pensées:
16. Demaree Bess quotes a Dutch banker in Holland in 1941: “We do not want to become martyrs any more than most modern people want martyrdom.” “The Bitter Fate of Holland,” Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 1, 1941.
17. William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming,” Collected Poems (New York: Macmillan Company, 1933).
18. See Section 27.
19. Fëdor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book V, Chap. 5.
Chapter XVI
1. See Section 37.
2. Peter Viereck, Metapolitics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), pp. 156 and 170.
3. Hans Bernd Gisevius, To the Bitter End (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947), pp. 121–122.
4. H. R. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (New York: Macmillan Company, 1947), p. 4.
Chapter XVII
1. Both Luther and Calvin “aimed to set up a new church authority which would be more powerful, more dictatorial and exacting, and far more diligent in persecuting heretics, than the Catholic Church.” Jerome Frank, Fate and Freedom (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1945), p. 283.
2. John Maynard, Russia in Flux (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1941), p. 19.
3. John Addington Symonds, The Fine Arts “Renaissance in Italy” series (London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1906), pp. 19–20.
4. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943), p. 105.
5. See Section 25.
Chapter XVIII
1. See Section 85.
2. For example, review the careers of Milton and Bunyan, Koestler and Silone.
3. Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1932). Preface.
4. “It was Napoleon who wrote to his Commissioner of Police asking him why there was no flourishing literature in the Empire and please