Note 8 — I The Modern Perfecting of Political Passions

For example, M. Paul Bourget’s La Barricade, where the author, a disciple of Georges Sorel, exhorts the bourgeoise not to leave to the proletariat the monopoly of class passion and violence. See also André Beaunier, Les Devoirs de la Violence (quoted by Halperine-Kaminski in the preface to Tolstoi’s book, The Law of Love and the Law of Violence).