Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.

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). (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. Remy de Gourmont (April 4 1858 – September 27 1915) was a French Symbolist poet novelist and influential critic.