Note 67 — Part II THE TRADITIONAL DEMOCRACY

Arcos, Romains and Vildrac are the chief of these. Romains, who has written “La Vie Unanime,” is the most interesting for our present purpose, for his togetherness is so plainly that of the herd:

... “quelle joie

De fondre dans ton corps [le ville] immense

oú l’on a chaud!”

Here is our old friend, the wild ox, in the mask of the most civilized (perhaps) portion of our most civilised (perhaps) nation. Again

“Nous sommes indistincts: chacun de nous est mort;

Et la vie unanime est notre sépulture.”