L'Abbé JOSEPH ROUX:--"Il y a là des vues originales, des appréciations neuves et frappantes."
FRÉDÉRIC MISTRAL:--"Ces pensées m'ont paru neuves et piquantes, et indépendantes de cette ambiance de préjugés à laquelle il est si difficile d'échapper."
Le Père P. V. DELAPORTE, S.J. (Rédacteur des Etudes Religieuses):--"J'ai admiré dans ces pages délicates l'artiste, le penseur et l'écrivain, et j'ai été singulièrement touché de la façon dont vous appréciez le génie français. Vous avez su le comprendre et vous avez dit votre pensée franchement, je pouvais ajouter _françaisement_."
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This book for all Nature-lovers appeals perhaps most strongly to those in cities pent, for whom a word in season can call up visions of the open moor, the forest, the meadow stream, the flowered lane, or the wild sea-shore. The extreme penalty for reading one of these spring, summer, autumn, or winter chapters is to be driven from one's chair into the nearest field, there to forget town worries among the trees. The author does not spare us for fog, rain, frost, or snow. Sometimes he makes us get up by moonlight and watch the dawn come "cold as cold sea-shells" to the fluting of blackbirds, or he takes us through the woods by night and shows us invisible things by their sounds and scents. The spirit, even if the body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the country.
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This book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object of discovering where and under what conditions man has shown the most positive attitude towards life. The review has been based not so much upon scholarship as upon the direct evidence of the products and monuments of the different peoples of history, and the author has consequently travelled widely in order to collect his material. The author shows how the patriarchal system and values have always been the foundation of peoples, who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life, and have expressed their mastery in works of art, which have been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other peoples. In contrast to them has been the briefer history of civilisation in Europe, in which the paternal and filial values of interdependence have always been rivalled by the ideal of independence from one's fellow-man. The consequences of this ideal of personal liberty in the destruction of the art of life are forcibly delineated in the last chapters.