[44] "The true formula of patriotism is the equal right of all countries
to liberty and justice; it is the duty of every citizen to increase in
his own country the forces of liberty and justice. Those are but sorry
patriots who in order to love and serve one country, find it necessary
to decry the others, the other great moral forces of humanity." (1905.)
[45] Or the extracts given by Charles Rappoport in his excellent book
_Jean Jaurès, l'homme, le penseur, le socialiste_ (1915, Paris,
_l'Emancipatrice_), with an introduction by Anatole France. From this
book are quoted the passages referred to in the notes which follow.
_Jean Jaurès_, a brochure by René Legand, should also be read.
[46] Rappoport, _op. cit._, pp. 70-77.
[47] Rappoport, p. 234.
[48] In his speech at Vaise, near Lyon, July 25, 1914, six days before
his death, he said: "Every people appears throughout the streets of
Europe carrying its little torch; and now comes the conflagration."
[49] Rappoport, p. 61.
[50] Rappoport p. 369-70.
[51] "Throughout the world there are six millions of us, organized
workmen, for whom the name of Jaurès was the incarnation of the noblest
and most complete aspiration.... I remember what he was for the workmen
of other countries. I see still the foreign delegates who awaited his
words before forming their final opinions; even when they were not in
agreement with him they were glad to approach his point of view. He was
more than the Word: he was the Conscience."
[52] Who has spoken more nobly than he of the eternal France, "the true
France, that is not summed up by an epoch or by a day, neither by the
day of long ago, nor the day that has just passed, but the whole of
France complete in the succession of her days, of her nights, of her
dawns, of her shadows, of her heights and of her depths; of France, who,
across all these mingled shades, all these half-lights and all these
vicissitudes, goes forward towards a brilliance which she has not yet
attained, but which is foreshadowed in her thought!" (1910.)
See his masterly picture of French history, and his magnificent eulogy
of France, at the Conference of 1905, which he was prevented from
delivering in Berlin, and which Robert Fischer read in his place.
[53] The terms Asia and Africa have not, of course, a geographical but
an ethnological signification. Turkey is not, and never has been,
European; and it is difficult to decide up to what points certain of the
Balkan Powers are European.
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Corrections of typographical erros made by the etext transcriber:
Tolstoï=>Tolstoi
Auslænder, Auslander=>Ausländer
Deutschland Uber Alles=>Deutschland Über Alles
Amédee=>Amédée
Rene Schickele=>René Schickele
René Legan=>René Legand
Barrés=>Barrès
Caesar=>Cæsar
Cornelienne=>Cornélienne
Ferriere=>Ferrière
Hervè=>Hervé
Kulturtrager=>Kulturträger
Léonhard=>Leonhard
Liége=>Liège
Peguy=>Péguy
Regnier=>Régnier
Thermopylae=>Thermopylæ
Zorothowa=>Zorothowo
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