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In that country, where they laugh ever and se jouent de tout, Science is sacred; the Academy has even pas of the army; honors there are higher prized than the very wreaths of glory. Among the votaries of Science in France, César Prévost was the humblest, serviteur, Monsieur.
"Et dire que ce sont des Hongrois qui jouent tout cela!" a humourist remarked from the pavement. As the evening wore on and the crowd about our window thickened, the loiterers outside began to join in the war-songs. "Allons, debout! " and the loyal round begins again. "La chanson du depart" is a frequent demand; and the chorus of spectators chimes in roundly.
He accepts, however, their statement that no one at first hoped that the words would be made good; and he proceeds to account for the extraordinary belief which, in spite of this original incredulity, grew up, and changed the course of things and the face of the world. We admire and respect many things in M. Renan; but it seems to us that his treatment of this matter is simply the ne plus ultra of the degradation of the greatest of issues by the application to it of sentiment unworthy of a silly novel. In the first place, he lays down on general grounds that, though the disciples had confessedly given up all hope, it yet was natural that they should expect to see their master alive again. "Mais I'enthousiasme et l'amour ne connaissent pas les situations sans issue." Do they not? Are death and separation such light things to triumph over that imagination finds it easy to cheat them? "Ils se jouent de l'impossible et, plutôt que d'abdiquer l'espérance, ils font violence
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