3. THE TEMPERAMENT OF THE REVOLUTION IS CONTRARY TO THE MILITARY LIFE

            Lastly, there is a temperamental antipathy between the Revolution and the military spirit. The Revolution, before it has full control, is verbose, declamatory, and scheming. The resolution of matters in a direct, drastic, straightforward way -- the military way – displeases what we could

call the present temperament of the Revolution. We stress present in allusion to the current stage of the Revolution among us, because there is nothing more despotic and cruel than the Revolution when it is omnipotent. Russia has provided an eloquent example of this. But even there the divergence remained, since the military spirit is quite different from that of the executioner.

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            Having analyzed the revolutionary utopia in its various aspects, we close the study of the Revolution.