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Pleased that what he calls his "mission" has been successful, Dr. Petrovitch is back on his daily routine, from Manhattan. He wants no one to mistake his motives. "I am not," he points out, "a revolutionist. I am a nationalist...
...many a worried Southerner Ellen Glasgow's realism makes her seem like a revolutionist. She is more of a belated Victorian with a full Victorian concern with moral problems. Last year she told Irita Van Doren: "I would lead the revolution myself if I were sure I'd get the right heads on my pike." The heads that Ellen Glasgow would hoist would please few revolutionists. No group is without them and no group has a monopoly of them. Ellen Glasgow has been thrusting at them since she started writing. They are called intolerance, injustice, inhumanity...
Robespierre did not make the Revolution, as Napoleon said, but he did "drive many people to madness who without him merely would have been fools." He followed the now-familiar course-from reformer to revolutionist. Like Lenin he transmuted a rabid hatred of his own class into a social system based (at first) on a sentimental love for the proletariat. Like both Lenin and Hitler, Robespierre knew that revolutions never stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude...
...blowing like an irresistible gale against the rotten political and social structure which the eighteenth century had considered stable and enduring." One of the two or three minds who vitally affected 19th-Century thought, Shelley was perhaps the most radical voice in poetry since Lucretius, an inexorable social revolutionist. A rhyming Marx, he urged the British masses...
...American people have handsomely supported, showered wealth on me, and now I want to do something to express my gratitude. . . ." So said Ely Culbertson, 49, onetime (1907-13) anarchist and Social Revolutionist in Europe, now longtime U. S. bridge tycoon. His method of expressing his gratitude: running for the Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-large in Connecticut...