Brass and Clay
Catherine 11. once happily described ' an imperial ' tyrant of her day as ' a colossus of brass on a pedestal cf clay.' The description is a glove-fit for the tyrannous oligarchy that is at present ' playing , such pranks before high heaven in France. The pedestal of clay is the pcorly cohesivei mass of anarchy and irreligion on which the ' Bloc ' rests. The clay is' split-' ling along the lines of the ' independent "*•> socialism ' of Millerand, Jaurcs, and Labor-Minister Viviani* on the one side, and on the other side the revolutionary socialists who despise peaceable methods of reform and jare preparing as best they can to take possession of place and power by brute force. Despite the convention of 1899, the quarrel between the two sections of French atheistic socialism is not smoothed over, and each is pursiilmg its own end in its own way.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 22
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146Brass and Clay New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 22
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