Note 144 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

Here M. Maurras separates from his Master, de Maistre, who speaks of ‘the ocean which will one day welcome everything and everyone to its bosom’. However, the author of the Soirées de Saint-Petersbourg quickly adds: ‘But I refrain from touching on personality, without which immortality is nothing.’