The Masters of Modern French Criticism
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In our day of absolute intellectual liberty, when curiosity is the chief virtue, this form has taken the place of theology and has found its Saint Thomas Aquinas in Sainte-Beuve.^ M. France as a matter of fact has simply developed to the ultimate stage the germs of relativity in his masters Sainte-Beuve and Renan. The substitution of the notion of the relative for the notion of the absolute — this, indeed, seems to have been the characteristic achieve- ment of the nineteenth century not only in... Kterary criticism, but in all departments of thought. From Hegel to Darwin, the idea of " becoming," of growth and development, has, in a hundred forms, so pene- trated and transformed the mental habits of the modern man as to make it increasingly difficult for him to look upon anything as fixed and final. " The absolute is dead ! " exclaimed Edmond Scherer in 1860. But the heart, as we have seen, refused to ratify this verdict of the head. Renan's attempt to reconcile in himself the old man with the new resulted in his theory of a God who does not yet exist, but is in process of " becom- ing." It was left for M.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In our day of absolute intellectual liberty, when curiosity is the chief virtue, this form has taken the place of theology and has found its Saint Thomas Aquinas in Sainte-Beuve.^ M. France as a matter of fact has simply developed to the ultimate stage the germs of relativity in his masters Sainte-Beuve and Renan. The substitution of the notion of the relative for the notion of the absolute — this, indeed, seems to have been the characteristic achieve- ment of the nineteenth century not only in... Kterary criticism, but in all departments of thought. From Hegel to Darwin, the idea of " becoming," of growth and development, has, in a hundred forms, so pene- trated and transformed the mental habits of the modern man as to make it increasingly difficult for him to look upon anything as fixed and final. " The absolute is dead ! " exclaimed Edmond Scherer in 1860. But the heart, as we have seen, refused to ratify this verdict of the head. Renan's attempt to reconcile in himself the old man with the new resulted in his theory of a God who does not yet exist, but is in process of " becom- ing." It was left for M.
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