In a message dated 07/16/2000 11:45:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<<
 But does Pound himself reject the notion of chosen people, or of chosen
 individuals?  In this letter to Lewis, written in 1936, Pound might appear
 to believe in the Italians as a chosen people.

   Now that the Empire exists, it needs a Center in
   which intelligence and the strength of the race
   are concentrated, but from which in turn the light
   of its civilization spreads across and penetrates
   the lesser nuclei. . . The New Order will speak from
   Rome in ways neither heard nor dreamed of, in ways
   foreseen only by a few people of ardent imagination
  >>

one should not confuse "chosen" with "vanguard"....

jb....