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Updated: June 7, 2025
There are times when the cold voice of reason is required to still with its icy tones the fever of the senses, and to strengthen anew the soul in its holy and energetic resolves. Julie introduced me to M. de Bonald as the young man whose verses he had read; he was surprised at my youth, and addressed me with indulgence.
To forward his design, many works were published: one of them, the Essai sur l'Unité des Cultes, of M. Bonald, is written, with great ingenuity. That Essay, and several others by the same author, were inserted in the Ambigu of Peltier, and deserve the attention, of every reader.
Collectivism is equality; and equality is collectivism, otherwise our equality will be nothing but a phantom and an hypocrisy. Every one who is a convinced and sincere egalitarian, and who takes the trouble to think, is forced to be a collectivist. Bonald asked very wittily: "Do you know what is a deist? It is a man who has not lived long enough to be an atheist."
M. de Châteaubriand, M. de Bonald, M. de Villèle, in the 'Conservative, and M. Benjamin Constant in the 'Minerva, maintained an incessant assault on the Cabinet.
"From the Gospel to the Contrat Social," says De Bonald, "it is books that have made revolutions." Indeed, a great book is often a greater thing than a great battle. Even works of fiction have occasionally exercised immense power on society.
'You are releasing a dead man, said he, with chilly irony; 'the young man is gone, as Monsieur de Bonald says, to appear before his natural Judge. He died of apoplexy "I breathed again, thinking it was sudden illness. "'As I understand you, Monsieur le President, said Monsieur Popinot, 'it is a case of apoplexy like Pichegru's.
The curé had read Bonald, and answered: "I am ignorant of his motives; it was, no doubt, to inspire a salutary fear in the people of whom he was the leader." "Finally, this mass of water where did it come from?" "How do I know? The air was changed into water, just as happens every day."
His Catholicism, he told her, was outwardly of the Bossuet and Bonald type, but was esoterically mystical, Saint-Johnian, which form alone preserved the real Christian tradition.
It had happened to him to hold his own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallee.
Here every sort of demon and devil, genius and ghost, Lucinde and Charlemagne, Alarcos, Maria, Plato, Spinoza and Bonald, Goethe consecrated and Goethe condemned, revolution and hierarchy, reel about restlessly, come together, and, what is the strangest thing of all, do not clash.
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