ABSTRACT

That is why in this case objectivity of presentation is even more dubious than usual. And yet the man who presents this age must give a general account from his vantage point.

The lack of judgement which contents itself with assigning to each individual moment of the revolution its relative raison d’être as an evolutionary stage is shallow and inadequate. For, in the first place, not everything is necessary by any means, but many

things are accidental and personal doings, and secondly, the worst judgement is easily substituted for the supposed absence of judgement, namely, the approval of the fait accompli, the succès.