_The ‘Manifesto of the Party of Intelligence’ (Figaro, 19th July,
1919)._
This manifesto, signed by fifty-four French writers, several of whom
are among the teachers most respected by their fellow-citizens, is
of the greatest importance to the present inquiry. In addition to
the strange passage on the Church’s mission which I quoted above, it
contains things like this:--
‘Nationalism, which the conceptions of the intelligence impose
on political conduct as well as on the order of the world, is a
reasonable, humane system, and French in addition.’