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Citizen Rateau, if he thought about the matter at all, must indeed have been vastly surprised at the unwonted amiability or indifference of sergeant Ribot, who was in command at the gate of Gentilly.
In astronomy, Kant, Laplace, and the Herschels; in geology, Hutton, Lyell, and the Geikies; in biology, Buffon, Lamarck, the Darwins, Huxley, and Spencer; in psychology, Spencer, Romanes, Sully, and Ribot; in sociology, Spencer, Tylor, Lubbock, and De Mortillet these have been the chief evolutionary teachers and discoverers.
Genius will occasionally rise a little above convention, but with an old convention immutability will be the rule. "Such," continues M. Ribot, "are the admitted characters of instinct." Yes; but are they not also the admitted characters of actions that are due to memory? At the bottom of p. 15, M. Ribot quotes the following from Mr. Darwin:
"The thing that puzzles me," she said as they started on the long drive from Bayeux to Armanches, "is why Michael didn't send his Normandy address to Madame Ribot. We should have been saved all that long journey to Rome if he had." "Perhaps he intended to, and forgot," suggested Dan. "Artists are proverbially absent-minded." But Gillian shook her head with a dissatisfied air.
The next one was an old man of bad reputation, who lived alone in an old hut two miles from Valpinson. He was called Father Gaudry. Unlike young Ribot, who had shown great assurance, the old man looked humble and cringing in his dirty, ill-smelling rags. After having given his name, he said,
Enough has been said to show that the opinions which I am advancing are not new, but I have looked in vain for the conclusions which, it appears to me, M. Ribot should draw from his facts; throughout his interesting book I find the facts which it would seem should have guided him to the conclusions, and sometimes almost the conclusions themselves, but he never seems quite to have reached them, nor has he arranged his facts so that others are likely to deduce them, unless they had already arrived at them by another road.
This categorical declaration caused an uproar, and a few ill-informed persons interpreted it to mean that the new psychology which has spread in France under cover of the name of Ribot, sought to deny the existence of the soul, and was calculated to incline towards materialism. This is an error.
When all is said and done, you discover that with nations as with individuals it is not what they make but what they save that makes them strong and enduring. One afternoon last summer I talked in Paris with M. Alexandre Ribot, the French Minister of Finance: a stately white-bearded figure of a man who looked as if he had just stepped out of a Rembrandt etching.
March 9 President Wilson calls extra session of congress for April 16. March 11 British under Gen. Maude capture Bagdad; revolution starts in Petrograd. March 15 Czar Nicholas of Russia abdicates. March 17 French and British capture Bapaume. March 18 New French ministry formed by Alexander Ribot.
The appearance of this strange monster and the appalling character of its squealing, caused Nora to tremble like a leaf, but the animal having departed, a laudable curiosity made her forget her fears, and she asked: "What is it?" "That was Ribot." "Who and what is Ribot?" "Ribot was a celebrated French scientist, an authority on the subject of heredity.
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