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ELAN_VITAL

                                             December 10, 2007


   Bertrand Russell continues:

   "The mystic is usually a
   temperamentally active man                      PSYCHSOPHY
   forced into inaction; the
   vitalist is a temperamentally
   inactive man with a romantic
   admiration for action.
   Before 1914 the world was
   full of such people,
   'Heartbreak House' people.
   Their temperamental basis is
   boredom and scepticism,
   leading to love of excitement
   and longing for an irrational
   faith -- a faith they found
   ultimately in the belief that
   it was their duty to make
   people kill each other."


                   "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century"
                   p. 266-7 of "The Basic Writings"

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