Note 78 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal

L’Appel au Soldat. Compare this with the traditional French teaching, of which Barrès claims to be the heir: ‘Whatever your country may be, you should only believe what you would be disposed to believe if you were in another country.’ (Logique de Port-Royal, iii, xx.) It must not be thought that dogma of national truths aims only at moral truth. Recently certain French thinkers waxed indignant that the doctrines of Einstein were accepted by their compatriots without more resistance.