Meanwhile they maintain their sway in their own countries.
"They are quite inoffensive," we are told.
Nonsense! They would burn Giordano Bruno as willingly now as they did in
the old days.
There is a great deal of fire remaining in the hearts of our
theophagists.
ANARCHISM
In an article appearing in _Hermes_, a magazine published in
Bilbao, Salaverria assumes that I have been cured of my anarchism, and
that I persist in a negative and anarchistic attitude in order to retain
my literary clientele; which is not the fact. In the first place, I can
scarcely be said to have a clientele; in the second place, a small
following of conservatives is much more lucrative than a large one of
anarchists. It is true that I am withdrawing myself from the festivals
of Pan and the cult of Dionysus, but I am not substituting for them,
either outwardly or inwardly, the worship of Yahveh or of Moloch. I have
no liking for Semitic traditions--none and none whatever! I am not able,
like Salaverria, to admire the rich simply because they are rich, nor
people in high stations because they happen to occupy them.
Salaverria assumes that I have a secret admiration for grand society,
generals, magistrates, wealthy gentlemen from America, and Argentines
who shout out: "How perfectly splendid!" I have the same affection for
these things that I have for the cows which clutter up the road in front
of my house.
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