Note 129 — Chapter XVIII

The Magiques, Romanistes, and Magnificistes are possible exceptions. But the Magiques possessed at one time such an unquiet spirit as Paul Adam, and the Magnificistes oppose the tyranny of science and magnify “les êtres.” The Romanistes, it is true, accept relatively regular poetic forms, but they attack the Christian church and admit the destruction of nationality. The union of the Latin peoples, which they advocate, they regard simply as an intermediate step preparatory to the union of the whole human race.