CHAPTER V: The Three Depths of the Revolution:       In the Tendencies, in the Ideas, and in the Facts

1. THE REVOLUTION IN THE TENDENCIES

            As we have seen, this Revolution is a process made up of stages and has its ultimate origin in certain disorderly tendencies that serve as its soul and most intimate driving force.9

            Accordingly, we can also distinguish in the Revolution three depths, which, chronologically speaking, overlap to a certain extent.

            The first and deepest level consists of a crisis in the tendencies. These disorderly tendencies by their very nature struggle for realization. No longer conforming to a whole order of things contrary to them, they begin by modifying mentalities, ways of being, artistic expressions, and customs without immediately touching directly - at least habitually - ideas.