SOURCE: A review of "Reflections on Violence", by Georges Sorel, in Social and International Ideas, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917, pp. 183-88.

In the following excerpt, political philosopher Bosanquet admires Sorel's thesis in Reflections on Violence, but takes exception to translator and philosopher T. E. Hulme 's interpretation.

I may say at once that M. Sorel appears to me to have worked out for himself a fine philosophy of life and social forces. Whether or no he has seen to the end of it, either as a gospel of humanity or as a motive in social process, at all events his attitude is one which commands respect.

In his preface of seven pages, the translator applies himself to explain the general misconception of Sorel's work. His point is, in a word, that Sorel, while at the very heart of the working-class movement, is absolutely hostile to "democratic" theory. But...