Bonaventure : a Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Bonaventure : a Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, Former Owner. Dlc
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What could Digitized by Google 102 BONAVENTURB. they reply? They were a people around whom the entire world's thought had swirled and tumbled for four hundred years without once touching them. Their ancestors had left France before Descartes or Newton had begun to teach the modern world to think. They knew no method of reasoning save by precedent, and had never caught the faintest reflection from the mind of that great, sweet thinker who said, " A stubborn retention of customs is a turbulent th...ing, no less than the introduction of new." To such strangers in the world of to-day now came the contemptuous challenge of authority, defying them to prove that one who pro- posed to launch them forth upon a sea of changes out of sight of all precedent and tradition was not the hireling of some enemy's gold secretly paid to sap the foundations of all their spiritual and temporal interests and plunge them into chaos. They blamed Bonaventure ; he had got himself hated and them rebuked; it was enough.
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