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a religion, free and individual, and it will 

 perish. Islamism is not a merely State re- 

 ligion, like Catholicism was in France nnder 

 Louis XI V, and still is in Spain ; it is a re- 

 ligion which excludes the State, an organi- 

 zation of which the Papal States offer the 

 only type in Europe. War unceasing is 

 there,- — Avar which will only cease when the 

 last son of Ismael shall have died with 

 misery, or been driven by terror to the 

 depths of the desert. Islamism is the perfect 

 negative of Europe ; Islamism is fanaticism, 

 such as Spain in the time of Philip II., and 

 Italy in the time of Pius V., scarcely knew. 

 Islamism is contempt of science, suppression 

 of civil society ; it is the frightful weakness 

 of the Shemitic spirit, narrowing the mind of 

 man ; closing it against every delicate con- 

 ception, every fine feeling, every rational 

 research, to place it immovably in front of 

 one unceasing tautology : God is God, 



The future, gentlemen, then belongs to 

 Europe, and to Europe alone. Europe will 

 subdue the world, and will spread over it its 



