Ideological enthusiasm affords such a convenient outlet for
human aggressiveness that no complex attitude which depends on accepted
principles not being carried to their
logical extremes, has ever enjoyed a long lease of life.[1]
[1]
R.R. Bolgar, The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries: From the Carolingian
Age to the End of the Renaissance (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964) p. 46. First published in 1954 a year after Stalin’s
death.
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