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The writer is not acquainted with 'the bound and bounding young man' in the intervening regions and it would be very interesting to find connecting cases, stepping-stones, as it were, by which the rite passed from the Levant to the frozen North. M. Littre on 'demoniac affections, a subject, in his opinion, worthy of closer study. Outbreak of Modern Spiritualism.
As M. Littre says, it is always the same old story. But why is it always the same old story? There were two theories before the world in 1856. First there was the 'animistic-hypothesis, 'spirits' move the objects, spirits raise the medium in the air, spirits are the performers of the airy music.
Marechal, who had listened silently until then, interrupted the conversation, to defend the monkeys in the name of Littre. He had framed a theory, founded on Darwin, and tending to prove that men who despised monkeys despised themselves. Herzog, a little taken aback by this unexpected reply, had looked at Marechal slyly, asking himself if it was a joke.
A curious reader, in that period of excitement about 'spiritualism, would turn to the Revue, attracted by M. Littre's name. This is not very consistent or helpful counsel. Like the rest of us, who are so far beneath M. Littre in grasp and in weight of authority, he was subject to the idola fori, the illusions of the market-place.
The Course of Positive Philosophy was not a book that took the public by storm. But through men like Littre and Taine, whose conceptions of history were moulded by his teaching, and men like Mill, whom he stimulated, as well as through the disciples who adopted Positivism as a religion, his leading principles, detached from his system, became current in the world of speculation.
To the friends of a force or faculty in our nature, M. Littre remarks, in effect, 'Why don't you use your force? why don't you supply a new motor for locomotives? Pooh! The answer would be that it was not the volume and market value of the force, but the existence of the force, which interested the inquirer.
Littre, the French scholar who single-handed has given to the world a far better Dictionary than that on which the Academy had bestowed the collective labour of more than two hundred years, shows a much juster estimate of the actual facts of language.
To begin with, he urged him to join the Revue Germanique, then being started by Charles Dollfus, Renan, Littre, and others. Amiel left the letter for three months unanswered and then wrote a reply which M. Scherer probably received with a sigh of impatience. For, rightly interpreted, it meant that old habits were too strong, and that the momentary impulse had died away.
As he walked along he recapitulated what he knew of the woman. She was married, blonde, in easy circumstances because she had her own sleeping quarters and a maid. She lived in the neighbourhood, because she went to the rue Littré post-office for her mail. Her name, supposing she had prefixed her own initial to the name of Maubel, was Henriette, Hortense, Honorine, Hubertine, or Hélène. What else?
To the spiritualists M. Littre says, 'Bah! to the partisans of a force or fluid, he says, 'Pooh! 'If your spirits are spirits, why do they let the world wag on in its old way, why do they confine themselves to trivial effects? The spiritualist would probably answer that he did not understand the nature and limits of spiritual powers.
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