That was an interesting quote from Benoist, but the whole sentence is even more interesting: “All men of quality are brothers . . . no matter their race, their country, or their period.”

As to “envy,” I thought the entire piece was about it — about the envy or resentment of the common toward the noble.

I think that Dominique Venner should have been more explicit in saying that Jean-Paul Sartre was motivated by envy. This explains Sartre’s sympathy for regimes that promised “the superiority of the lowest types of man” (Francis Parker Yockey) and his hatred of any manifestation of nobility.

Although envy is ubiquitous, one encounters the word very rarely, so much so that Garrett Hardin suggested in Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) that it is taboo to mention it. I think that we should challenge this taboo in order to better unmask and understand the psychology of our enemies. Exposing the base motives of our enemies is not bad form but realism.

By far the best work on envy is the brilliant treatise by the German sociologist Helmut Schoeck, Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour (Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 1987). So far as I can recall or check, this book has not been reviewed or cited in The Occidental Quarterly or its websites. (The late John Attarian wrote a review of it for another journal.) It would be good if a writer such as Kevin MacDonald, Richard Hoste, or Alex Kurtagic could review this book. Perhaps a good title for a review would be “The Egalitarian Personality.”