whom the French pretend to emulate.

The mummification of ideas goes on as before, the forward spirits are crushed, the people, when they have a leader, are delivered over to death. Realism has taken the place of reality, and the true leaders are only discovered after their death.

• This is the most singular distortion, it is interesting to notice, which Balzac makes in recounting the story of his double’s boyhood.
• Later, when describing Louis’ feverish anticipation of a union with the woman he loves, Balzac gives us another rupture with the world, this time the final one.
• (Book of the Golden Precepts)
• From “L’Ame Romantique et le Réve”—Albert Béguin.
• “Le Mysticisme Français du 18e Siècle”—Adolphe Franck.

The End