REVOLUTIONARY TYPES REVOLUTIONARY TYPES BY IDA A. TAYLOR AUTHOR OF LIFE OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM LONDON DUCKWORTH and CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, W. C. 1904 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION, BY R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, . . vii JOHN PYM, i THOMAS HARRISON, 29 GEORGE WASHINGTON, 55 BENEDICT ARNOLD, 84 Louis ANTOINE DE SAINT-JUST, 117 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, 146 JOHN MITCHEL, 167 THE ROMAN TRAGEDY OF 48, 194 MANARA AND HIS FRIENDS, 229 CONCLUSION, 255 The Author has ...
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REVOLUTIONARY TYPES REVOLUTIONARY TYPES BY IDA A. TAYLOR AUTHOR OF LIFE OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM LONDON DUCKWORTH and CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, W. C. 1904 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION, BY R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, . . vii JOHN PYM, i THOMAS HARRISON, 29 GEORGE WASHINGTON, 55 BENEDICT ARNOLD, 84 Louis ANTOINE DE SAINT-JUST, 117 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, 146 JOHN MITCHEL, 167 THE ROMAN TRAGEDY OF 48, 194 MANARA AND HIS FRIENDS, 229 CONCLUSION, 255 The Author has to thank the Editor of TEMPLE BAR fcr permission to use the article on Toussaint E Quverture INTRODUCTION WOMEN in the past having been more bound by convention than men, it is natural that revolution and revolutionists should interest them. They seem to feel instinctively, even when unaware of it themselves, that they have all to gain by alteration of existing laws. The present writer is no exception to the rule. Moreover, in a valedictory chapter, which has made my preface quite uncalled for, she has not only nailed her revolutionary colours to the mast, in a passage of great faith and beauty, but to paraphrase an ancient Scottish story, she has taken the word o God oot o the ministers mooth. The Types cover all the revolutionary gallery that is, if, as some assert, Saint-Just was a socialist, for Harrison would the Type selected had been honest Colonel Lilburne was clearly an anarchist He who wishes to see Christs kingdom upon earth, the Rule of the Saints, the Fifth Monarchy in operation, or what not, is almost certain to be an anarchist vii viii REVOLUTIONARY TYPES To him quite naturally all womens political hearts go out, for there is none of your damned logicabout the position he assumes. Now the enslavement of man by logic is as incomprehensible to most women as the slavish keeping of the plighted word appeared to the Turkish pasha in the story. It is strange but true, that the man of Christs kingdom upon earth should be an anarchist but when we consider how many conventions would have to be broken to superinduce the coming of such a reign, it is easily understood that the easiest way is to break them all at once. This, I think, is the key to the enigma. Moreover, Christ himself to the Philistines and the vast majority of the Publicans for one righteous Publican does not make a heaven must have appeared as a breaker of all laws. With the single exception of Washington, all the Types presented by the writer died either violent or miserable deaths. But Washington, with all his virtues, never appealed to the imaginative mind after his inhuman refusal when a child to tell an almost necessary lie. The rest, in their several degrees, all have their interest, some, as Toussaint LOuverture and Saint-Just, are amongst the most interesting of all characters which history can present. It is well, I think, in this age of self-content, and INTRODUCTION ix when in England nothing appears less possible than revolution, that this book should have been written, if only to remind the public that the brand is not extinct The thing that strikes me most about the men whose characters I read of in the book, is the extraordinary likeness that they present to ordinary men when not immediately engaged, as it were, on their work. Thus it is easy for almost any one to be revolutionist, and it may be that many are so, all unknown to themselves. The thing wants noexperience, there is neither grammar to be learned nor technique to be mastered. Nor is the revolutionary, as are the poet and the orator, born and not made. Take Toussaint LOuverture, Up to the age of fifty-four the age at which Columbus sailed from Palos to make a revolution in geography he was a slave. As he said himself, Jai 4M esclave, fose Cavouer Mais je riai jamais essuy m me des reproches de la part de mes maitres Nothing more dignified was ever penned...
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