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The True Believer_ Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer [71]

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to see to it that there was.” Jacques Barzun, Of Human Freedom (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1939), p. 91.

5. “John Milton,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.

6. Pirke Aboth, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1929), p. 36.

7. Eva Lips, Savage Symphony (New York: Random House, 1938), p. 18.

8. Quoted by J. A. Cramb, The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain (London: John Murray, 1915), p. 216.

9. In a letter to his friend Preen. Quoted by James Hastings Nichols in his introduction to the English translation of Jacob C. Burckhardt’s Force and Freedom (New York: Pantheon Books, 1943), p. 40.

10. Ernest Renan, History of the People of Israel (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1888–1896), Vol. V, p. 360.

11. Angelica Balabanoff, My Life as a Rebel (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938), p. 281.

12. Quoted by W. R. Inge, “Patriotism,” Nineteen Modern Essays, ed. W. A. Archbold (New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1926), p. 213.

13. John Maynard, Russia in Flux (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1941), p. 29.

14. “The Christian resistance to authority was indeed more than heroic, but it was not heroic.” Sir J. R. Seeley, Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan, 1895), p. 81.

15. Said Hardenberg to the King of Prussia after the defeat at Jena: “Your Majesty, we must do from above what the French have done from below.”

16. Fëdor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed, Modern Library edition (New York: Random House, 1936), p. 698.

17. José Ortega y Gasset, The Modern Theme (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931), p. 128.

18. See Section 104 and following.

19. See Section 104.

20. J. B. S. Haldane, The Inequality of Man (New York: Famous Books, Inc., 1938), p. 49.

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