[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

...we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it--against us. ..

(There's nothing like that Good Ol' Yankee know-how.)

[Alain Chartier]

...we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it--against us...
That line stood out for me too.

Another shot of Jeffers, perhaps more palatable than the first two, but just as subversive.

NEW YEAR'S DAWN, 1947

Two morning stars, Venus and Jupiter,
Walk in the pale and liquid light
Above the color of these dawns; and as the tide of light
Rises higher the great planet vanishes
While the nearer still shines. The yellow wave of light
In the east and south reddens, the opaque ocean
Becomes pale purple: O delicate
earnestness of dawn, the fervor and pallor.
--Stubbornly I think again: The state is a blackmailer,
Honest or not, with whom we make (within reason)
Our accommodations. There is no valid authority
In church nor state, custom, scripture nor creed,
But only in one's own conscience and the beauty of things.
Doggedly I think again: One's conscience is a trick oracle,
Worked by parents and nurse-maids, the pressure of the people,
And the delusions of dead prophets: trust it not.
Wash it clean to receive the transhuman beauty: then trust it.