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Preciozi would admit that the past didn't matter much to him, and then with one accord, they would burst out laughing. Caesar said that Preciozi and he were the most anti-historic men going about in Rome. One morning they went to the Piazza del Campidoglio. It was drizzling; the wet roofs shone; the sky was grey.
They knocked at the gate and a woman came out who knew Kennedy, and who told them to wait a moment and she would open the church. "Here," said Kennedy, "you have all that remains of the famous Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. That anti-historic man Bonaparte rooted it out of Malta. The Order attempted to establish itself in Catania, and afterwards at Ferrara, and finally took refuge here.
They were, above all things, anti-historic, like the Futurists in Italy; and there was this unconscious greatness about them, that their very sacrilege was public and solemn, like a sacrament; and they were ritualists even as iconoclasts.
They were above all things anti-historic, like the Futurists in Italy; and there was this unconscious greatness about them, that their very sacrilege was public and solemn like a sacrament; and they were ritualists even as iconoclasts.
What it does involve in both cases is a defensive attitude; a vigilance on the frontiers. There is no war; but there is an armed peace. I have already explained the sense in which I say that the Moslems are unhistoric or even anti-historic. Perhaps it would be near the truth to say that they are prehistoric.
The chimera of a simple and absolute truth is wholly Catholic and anti-historic. The mind of Naville is mathematical and his objects moral. His strength lies in mathematicizing morals.
"Your friends," said the priest, smiling, "are unrestrained. They want to change everything in three days. Dr. Ortigosa is a crazy man...." "To my mind, he is the only man in Castro that deserves my estimation." "Yes?" "Yes." "This demoniac says that for him traditions have no value whatsoever." "Oh! I think the same thing," said Caesar. "Are you anti-historic?" "Yes, sir." "I don't believe it."
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