{"id":91,"date":"2008-11-24T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2020-11-24T00:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T05:15:50","slug":"the-fragility-of-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"The Fragility of Civilisation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNe craignons pas de leur donner de l\u2019amour-propre : confessions que ces ennemis de l\u2019\u00c9tat, de tous les \u00c9tats, sont redoutables, encore que fort m\u00e9diocre et peu nombreux. Car, s\u2019il faut de long \u00e2ges, un effort m\u00e9thodique et pers\u00e9v\u00e9rant, des inventions presque divines pour b\u00e2tir une ville, \u00e9lever un \u00c9tat, constituer une civilisation, il n\u2019y a rien de plus ais\u00e9 que de d\u00e9faire ces d\u00e9licates compositions. Quelques tonnes de poudre vile renversent un moiti\u00e9 du Parth\u00e9non : une colonie de microbes d\u00e9cime le people d\u2019Ath\u00e8nes ; trios ou quatre basses id\u00e9es syst\u00e9matis\u00e9es par des sots n\u2019ont point mal r\u00e9ussi depuis un si\u00e8cle \u00e0 rendre vains mille ans d\u2019Histoire de France.
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\nQue le mensonge lib\u00e9ral se propage donc sur la Terre, que l\u2019anarchisme et le d\u00e9mocratisme universel \u00e9tendent la pamb\u00e9otie annonc\u00e9e par Renan, que les barbares d\u2019en bas, pr\u00e9dits par Macaulay, paraissent \u00e0 propos, et l\u2019homme pourra disparaitre en tant qu\u2019\u00eatre humain, ainsi qu\u2019il aura disparu au titre de Fran\u00e7ais, de Grec ou de Latin.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nLet us not fear giving them their proper respect: let us confess that the enemies of the State, of all States, are formidable, even if second-rate and less numerous. For, if methodical and persistent efforts for long ages, almost divine inventions, are necessary to build a city, erect a State, establish a civilisation, there is nothing easier than to undo these fragile formations. A few tons of vile powder knocks down half of the Pantheon; a colony of microbes decimates the population of Athens, three or four base ideas systematised by fools have succeeded for a century to render useless a thousand years of French history.
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\nShould the liberal lie spread over the earth, should anarchism and universal democratism extend the general stupidity announced by Renan, should the barbarians from below predicted by Macaulay appear at the right moment, and man will disappear as a human being just as he will have disappeared as a Frenchman, a Greek, or a Latin.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~ Charles Maurras, Quand les Fran\u00e7ais ne s\u2019Aimaient pas<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ne craignons pas de leur donner de l\u2019amour-propre : confessions que ces ennemis de l\u2019\u00c9tat, de tous les \u00c9tats, sont redoutables, encore que fort m\u00e9diocre et peu nombreux. Car, s\u2019il faut de long \u00e2ges, un effort m\u00e9thodique et pers\u00e9v\u00e9rant, des inventions presque divines pour b\u00e2tir une ville, \u00e9lever un \u00c9tat, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maurras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13441,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/13441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}