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Rh But his anxiety redoubles, and his indignation bursts its bounds, when he sees the dangerous weapon of the new fanaticism in the hands of those who profess to be regenerating humanity. Every revolutionist saddens him when he resorts to violence. But the intellectual and theoretical revolutionary inspires him with horror: he is a pedantic murderer, an arrogant, sterile intelligence, who loves not men but ideas.

Moreover, these ideas are of a low order.

“The object of Socialism is the satisfaction of the lowest needs of man: his material well-being. And it cannot attain even this end by the means it recommends.”

At heart, he is without love. He feels only hatred for the oppressors and “a black envy for the assured and easy life of the rich: a greed like that of the flies that gather about ordure.” When