Note 570 — Chapter V
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
Extreme individualism is also a characteristic of theirs.570 They abhor discipline, from which it follows that they nourish a fierce hatred of militarism. Even a mild form of discipline, such as that of a party of which one voluntarily becomes a member, is insupportable to them. Some of them have been socialists, but have soon left the party. Among these was Henry, who says in his defense: “For an instant I was attracted by socialism, but I did not delay in separating myself from this party. I had too much love for liberty, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance to incorporation, to take a number in the enlisted army of the fourth estate.”571