Note 161 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

This same Barrès is quoted as having said to a ‘Dreyfusist’ in 1898: ‘Why do you talk of justice and humanity to me! What do I care for? A few pictures in Europe and a few cemeteries!’ Another of our great political realists confessed one day to his fundamental necessity to ‘enjoy’. Socrates long ago told Protagoras that the basis of his doctrine was a thirst for sensation.