Note 30 — II Significance of this Movement—Nature of Political Passions

‘Discipline from the lowest to the highest must be essential and of a religious type.’ (Mussolini, 25th October, 1925.) This is new language in the mouth of a statesman, even of the most realist kind; it may be asserted that neither Richelieu nor Bismarck would have applied the word ‘religious’ to an activity whose object is exclusively materialistic.