de Vilmorin was a revolutionary, a man
of new ideas that should overthrow society and rebuild it more akin
to the desires of such as himself. I belonged to the order that
quite as justifiably desired society to remain as it was. Not only
was it better so for me and mine, but I also contend, and you have
yet to prove me wrong, that it is better so for all the world; that,
indeed, no other conceivable society is possible. Every human
society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may
disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a revolution such
as this; but only temporarily. Soon out of the chaos which is all
that you and your kind can ever produce, order must be restored or
life will perish; and with the restoration of order comes the
restoration of the various strata necessary to organized society.
Those that were yesterday at the top may in the new order of things
find themselves dispossessed without any benefit to the whole. That
change I resisted. The spirit of it I fought with whatever weapons
were available, whenever and wherever I encountered it.
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