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It is to these that his most modern admirers devote their main attention particularly to his letters and his autobiographies; but they are all of them highly characteristic of their author, and whatever the subject may be, from a guide to Rome to a life of Napoleon one gathers in them, scattered up and down through their pages, a curious, dimly adumbrated philosophy an ill-defined and yet intensely personal point of view le Beylisme.
M. Barrès says that what lies at the bottom of it is a 'passion de collectionner les belles énergies. But there are many kinds of 'belles énergies, and some of them certainly do not fit into the framework of 'le Beylisme. 'Quand je suis arrêté par des voleurs, ou qu'on me tire des coups de fusil, je me sens une grande colère contre le gouvernement et le curé de l'endroit.
'Le Beylisme' is certainly not susceptible of any exact definition; its author was too capricious, too unmethodical, in spite of his lo-gique, ever to have framed a coherent philosophy; it is essentially a thing of shreds and patches, of hints, suggestions, and quick visions of flying thoughts.
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