Dreyfusards formed no party but a heterogeneous elite of diverse men
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Who were the men who finally succeeded in splitting every class, even every family, in France into opposing factions over the Dreyfus issue? The answer is that they formed no party or homogeneous group. Admittedly they were recruited more from the lower than from the upper classes, as they comprised, characteristically enough, more physicians than lawyers or civil servants. By and large, however, they were a mixture of diverse elements: men as far apart as Zola and Péguy or Jaurès and Picquart, men who on the morrow would part company and go their several ways. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 326
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- Dreyfusards formed an unorganized elite, not a homogeneous party (similarity 0.93)