It is better to demonstrate that the small group of our ancestors possesses a great strength: its perfect homogeneity. Ethnic, social, religious, moral homogeneity, intrinsic value—nothing is lacking to constitute an elite nucleus.
We have in our country the patriotism of Ontarians, the patriotism of Quebecers and the patriotism of westerners. But there will not be a Canadian nation as long as we do not have a Canadian patriotism.
You must believe in Canada.
Thus, the real danger growing out of the French Revolution, from the viewpoint of Ontario was to be found in the revolutionary spirit that it engendered, and the political principles which the revolutionaries embraced with all the zeal of converts. In France, the people had embraced anarchy in their pursuit of the form of American democracy and, in rejecting the Christian Church, had given birth to the "Beast of Infidelity".
In doing so, the revolutionaries had united insubordination with infidelity, and had concocted a potent power which was hostile to every traditional government.
The madness of the French Revolution was such that the new revolutionary rulers of France had sought to follow Voltaire into infidelity. In doing so, they had presented the world with a spectacle altogether new: the efforts of a government to uproot Christianity, and substitute in its place the worship of 'the goddess of reason'
