Revolution is a religious faith; as Billington says, it is "perhaps the faith of our time" the modern revolutionary faith was born, not in France, but in 18th-century Germany. The dream of a totally secular order is the most basic lure of the revolutionary faith.
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Fire in the Minds of Men (James H Billing Ton, 1984)
Revolution is a religious faith; as Billington says, it is "perhaps the faith of our time" the modern revolutionary faith was born, not in France, but in 18th-century Germany. The dream of a…