Danton : Georges(-Jacques) (1759-94), a leading figure of the French Revolution. He has been branded “most complex & controversial” & “both a defender of the oppressed & a political opportunist”.
... men filling them all with its vehemence, its passion, its fierce demand on the world, its colossal impetus. Through four of them chiefly it helped itself, through Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Napoleon. Mirabeau initiated, Danton inspired, Robespierre slew, Page 513 Napoleon fulfilled. The first three appeared for the moment, the man in the multitude, did their work and departed. The pace... on speech, but has never realised the importance of souls, cannot appreciate men Page 515 like Danton. Only the eye of the seer can pick them out from the mass and trace to their source those immense vibrations. One may well speak of the genius of Mirabeau, the genius of Danton; it is superfluous to speak of the genius of Napoleon. But one cannot well speak of the genius of Robespierre... colossal political executioner of his or any age. As we have said, if Danton was the character of the French Revolution personified when it went forth to slay, Robespierre was its hand. But, naturally, he could not recognise that limitation; he aspired to think, to construct, to rule, functions for which he was unfit. When Danton demanded that the Terror should cease and Mercy take its place, Robespierre ...
... Robespierre and several other leaders of that great epoch. And then, suddenly, when I began to study Danton and his speeches, I felt that I had discovered the real centre of that Revolution. Although history has not appreciated the importance of that great hero, I began to see clearly that Danton was the character of Revolution personified. He was the very spirit of that great time; of the great ideal... from a carriage. The figure was not distinct and clear. But I was standing in the crowd and I watched that figure climbing up the gallows. Suddenly, I knew in the dream that that figure was figure of Danton. And I heard him speak something. I could not hear those words. And within a few seconds, I saw his neck guillotined. But as the head came down on the ground, I Page 35 looked up with a... midnight and I began to walk in my bed-room with firm steps as though I was marching on the battlefield. I felt as though the spirit of Joan of Arc had entered into me. And I remembered that vision of Danton and his words: 'I am immortal, I am immortal, I am immortal.' Page 55 "I began to ask myself more seriously than ever as to why I had that vision. Yes, since the time I had studied the ...
... immediately before the present one was associated with the French Revolution. If he was a guillotined front-liner, we can think only of Danton and Robespierre. But the Mother has seen Debu, Pranab's brother, as having been Page 298 the latter. So Danton has to be our choice. To me Sri Aurobindo wrote that he had "a psychic memory" of Dilip Kumar Roy as Horace, evidently a carry-over from ...
... immediately before the present one was associated with the French Revolution. If he was a guillotined front-liner, we can think only of Danton and Robespierre. But the Mother has Page 82 seen Debu, Pranab's brother, as having been the latter. So Danton has to be our choice. To me Sri Aurobindo wrote that he had "a psychic memory" of Dilip Kumar Roy as Horace, evidently a carry-over from ...
... character and tone. The voice itself would say who it was. Some of them he remembers very well. Once it was Bankim who said many fine things about education. Another day it was Danton who announced himself in a terrible voice, 'I am Danton! Terror! Red Terror!' He went on discoursing on the need and utility of all that bloodshed of the French Revolution. Another who came introduced himself thus, 'I am Theramenes ...
... idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the passive tamasic spirit of inertia we have already too much.... We would apply to the present situation the vigorous motto of Danton, that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare and again to dare and still to dare. .. .National education is by no means impracticable or even difficult, it needs nothing... terrible is the grasp of God and how insignificant the human reason before the whirlwind of His breath." Has any war gone exactly according to the calculations of the war-lords? Was Mirabeau or Danton able to regulate the lava-flow of the French Revolution? What then? Does it mean the total abdication of reason? Not altogether - only, one has to be ready always to listen to the other Voice when ...
... story of Danton comes to mind – Danton the leader of the French Revolution. For a long time he had been on the crest of the wave of revolution, a leader revered of all. The wheel of his fortune was now on the downward turn and another party, the extremists, had reached the crest. Orders were out for his arrest, which meant the guillotine. His friends rushed to him to give advice. "Flee, Danton, flee,"... " they said, "there is yet time, flee." Danton was unmoved and he replied in a calm and quiet manner. "That cannot be," he said. "On n'emporte pas Ie pays à la semelle de ses souliers" – "You cannot carry the country on the heels of your shoes." The Ashram has of course been subjected to fresh attacks Page 404 later, and to some of these many of you have been witness. But by ...
... story of Danton comes to mind: Danton the leader of the French Revolution. For a long time he had been on the crest of the wave of revolution, a leader revered by all. The wheel of his fortune was now on the downward turn and another party, the extremists, had reached the crest. Orders were out for his arrest, which meant the guillotine. His friends rushed to him to give advice. "Flee, Danton, flee... flee," they said, "there is yet time, flee." Danton was unmoved and he replied in a calm and quiet manner. "That cannot be," he said. "On n'emporte pas le pays a lasemelle de ses souliers"—"You cannot carry the country on the heels of your shoes." The Ashram has of course been subjected to fresh attacks later, and to some of these many of you have been witness. But by then the Ashram had its ...
... such and such a person. Sometimes great historical persons also came, as for example, I have described in my Reminiscences, the famous leader of the great French Revolution, Danton. In a terrible voice he cried out: I am Danton, terror, red terror, etc. Once a great politician of the ancient days, of the Greek times, appeared and started to give lessons on politics. Bankim also appeared once, I have ...
... only Maharajadhiraj thinks about English coolies. I have left India behind; I have not brought it with me. But in the sense you mean, I have brought India with me, that which is eternal in India. Danton, when pressed to escape from the coming doom to Switzerland, answered, "One does not carry one's country away with one on the sole of one's shoes." That is the materialist's answer, to whom the body ...
... 244,247 criminals. Indian, 214 in politics , 221 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 237 Cripps' proposal, 224(11), 237 culture. see under Indian culture Curzon, 17 Czechoslovakia , 23 I D Danton, 24 Das, Chillaranjan, 13,47, 159, 185,216, 221,223,242 Dayananda Saraswati, 116 ·118, 170 democracy, 61, 62, 103 ,104, 149, 174,214 Indian conception of, 39 parliamentary, 93, 172,214,221 in ...
... be indeed summed up in the mighty phrase of the Upanishads, nayam atma balahinena labhyah. 'This soul no weakling can attain. Strength! More strength! Strength evermore! One remembers the motto of Danton, the famous leader in the French Revolution: De I'audace, encore de I'audace, toujours de I'audace! The gospel, of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it ...
... perhaps tolerated for a period, some are occasions for the consciousness to battle and surmount, grow strong and pass beyond. You have to learn to go beyond and new-create your environment. It was Danton who said, one carries not his country with him at the sole of his shoe. Even so you cannot hope to shift bodily your present social ensemble, place it wholesale in the divine life on the plea that ...
... indeed summed up in the mighty phrase of the Upanishads, nāyam ātmā balahīnena labhyah . 'This soul no weakling can attain.' Strength! More strength! Strength evermore! One remembers the motto of Danton, the famous leader in the French Revolution: De l'audance, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace! The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it ...
... seen to crumble - and the current epidemic of violence and the unseemly blaze of action and opinion seem to be quite as revolutionary as the slogans and attitudes of masses of men who once swore by a Danton, a Lenin or a Mao Tse-tung. No doubt, many of the current forms of protest and nonconformity seem mere aberration; no doubt much inconvenience is caused, a lot of destruction too, and a general sense ...
... passive tamasic spirit of inertia we have already too much. We need to cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of mind. We would apply to the present situation the vigorous motto of Danton, that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare and Page 487 again to dare and still to dare. Nevertheless we recognise that to leap at once from an overpoweringly ...
... conviction. Its very foundation is the worship of national liberty as the one political deity and the readiness to consider all things well lost if only freedom is won. "Let my name be blasted," cried Danton, "but let France be saved." "Let my name, life, possessions all go," cries the true Nationalist, "let all that is dear to me perish, but let my country be free." But Babu Surendranath is not prepared ...
... inertia we have already too much. We need to cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of Page 23 mind. We would apply to the present situation the vigourous motto of Danton, that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare and again to dare and still to dare. * * * June 19, 1907 Apart from the natural attachment which every man ...
... seriously wrong. Mother, thinking of this case and one or two others, I feel ashamed of my poor knowledge and experience. I was wondering how I would show my face to you at Pranam. Cheer up. And as Danton said "De l'audace et toujours de l'audace". 79 (What is lacking in you is the doctor's confidence in guessing at a disease and throwing a medicine at it in the hope that it will stick and cure. ...
... "NB: Thinking of this case and one or two others, I feel ashamed of my poor knowledge and experience. I was wondering how I would show my face to you at Pranam. Sri Aurobindo: Cheer up. And as Danton said, 'De I'audace et toujours de I'audace 1 : ['Boldness, and always boldness!] What is lacking in you is the doctor's confidence in guessing at a disease and throwing a medicine at it in the hope ...
... Cousins, James H., 52n -New Ways in English Literature, 52n DANDAKARANYA,276 Dante, 53, 60-1, 71, 85, 169, 176,219 -Inferno, 53, 60n., 149, 169n -Paradiso, 53, 71, 149 Danton, 103 Delille, 85 Denmark,175 Descartes, 286 Dhammapada, 279n Diocles, 108, 109n Dionysus, 182-3 Dirghatama, 162-6 Discabolo, 170 Donne, 74, 80 -Divine Poems, ...
... 192 Chronos, 226 Colbert, 209, 411 Congo, 323-4 Curie, 428 Cyclops, 99 DAITYA, 46 Danege1d, 117 Dante, l8ln., 203, 209 – Divina Commedia, 181n. – Irifemo, 181n. Danton, 94 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 210 Debussy, 427 Devas, 253 Dhammapada , the, 9n., 159 Dionysus, 47 Dirghatamas, 44 Page 431 Diti,46 Durga, 98 EGYPT ...
... How was it possible to combine in a single voice such power and strength with so much sweetness! I had read about the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, heard the eulogies of France's Mirabeau and Danton, of Burke and Gladstone of England. But it was truly an experience to have heard with one's own ears a human voice of their calibre. One cannot do without a mike today if one is to address an audience ...
... unusual word we asked him the meaning. His reply was, "In our days we knew better English than you do." Another day, somebody else appeared and immediately announced himself in a terrible voice, "I am Danton! Terror! Red Terror!" He went on discoursing on the need and utility of all that bloodshed of the French Revolution. Another who came introduced himself thus, "I am Theramenes." Theramenes was a political ...
... the Time-Spirit in their purity, so long as they remain loyal to it in the depths of their being. Pythagoras and Plato, Zoroaster and Christ and Mohammed, Leonardo, Galileo and Newton, Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Napoleon, Mazzini and Garibaldi, Marx and Lenin etc., in the West, and Rama, Sri Krishna, Mahavira and Buddha, Shankaracharya and Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda ...
... putting us off for a moment, he finally gave out that he was Bankim Chandra. The talks used to be in English.... Another day someone else appeared and announced in a strident, dreadful voice: 'I am Danton! Terror! Red Terror!', and harangued us on the necessity and justification of bloodshed in the French Revolution. Yet another day somebody came and introduced himself thus: 'I 184. Sri Aurobindo ...
... * The young men sitting around Sri Aurobindo in an unlighted room at eight would suddenly hear a voice - Sri Aurobindo's and yet not his - breaking the silence, announcing its identity - perhaps Danton, or Bankim, or Theramenes! - and speaking in English. What did it all amount to? Certainly, supraphysical beings do exist; and some supraphysical beings - or portions or emanations of them - might ...
... relativity of human conceptions and philosophies; for this same Energy or Shakti that drove Mathilde may, in other places and beneath other skies, have just as well made of her a yogi in a cave, a Danton-like revolutionary, a diligent physicist in her laboratory or even, like Mira Ismalun, a great cosmopolite on an ideological conquest of the European capitals, with another tarbush. But she had chosen ...
... putting us off for a moment, he finally gave out that he was Bankim Chandra. The talks used to be in English.... Another day someone else appeared and announced in a strident, dreadful voice: 'I am Danton! Terror ! Red Terror!', and harangued us on the necessity and justification of bloodshed in the French Revolution. Yet another day somebody came and introduced himself thus: 'I am Theramenes.'" Adds ...
... wrote in June 1907, "is the aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack.... We would apply to the present situation the vigorous motto of Danton, that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare and again to dare and still to dare." He declared: "Strength attracts strength; firm and clear-minded courage commands success and ...
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