Notes on Life & Letters - Joseph Conrad

supports: to the moral corruption and mental darkness of slavery, to the mere brute force of numbers. ...

This very ignominy of infatuation should make clear to men’s feelings and reason that the downfall ...

and the self-appointed Apostle of Peace, the Augustus and the Augustulus of the régime that was wont to speak ...

Néant for many long years, in a more even than a Bismarckian sense. The very fear of this spe ...

initiate a rational scheme of reform upon a phase of blind absolutism; and in Russia there has never b ...

steppe lying dumbly on the confines of two continents: a true desert harbouring no Spirit either of the East ...

hope—Revolution. In the face of the events of the last four months, this word has sprung instinctively, as ...

behind the march of ideas they had themselves set in motion in a direction they could neither understand nor ...

safe to say tyranny, assuming a thousand protean shapes, will remain clinging to her struggles for a l ...

whenever her hand is not forced, ruled by a dynasty of uncertain future, weakened by her duality, can only ...

the abominable French nation massacred off the face of the earth? This illustration of the new war-temper is ...

machine) from flying prematurely at each other’s throats. This seems the only expedient at hand for the ...

activity. The idea of ceasing to grow in territory, in strength, in wealth, in influence—in anything b ...

away from our doorsteps. But it cannot be expected to achieve the feat always and under every variety o ...

Il n’y a plus d’Europe—there is only an armed and trading continent, the home of slowly maturing economical ...

they are blue. The disappearance of the Russian phantom has given a foreboding of unwonted freedom to the W ...

ruling principle of his life, wished simply to aggrandise his dominions at a much smaller cost and at much ...

a decayed Spain in the south and a conglomeration of small German Principalities on the east were her happy ...

As a Polish friend observed to me some years ago: “Till the year ’48 the Polish problem has been to a ...

international politics, presented a complete unity of feeling and purpose. As an eminent French diplomati ...