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Tenemos que movernos de prisa y anticiparnos a las horas vagas aspiraciones de las masas femeninas para ahorrarnos de ese modo agitaciones que al fin habrían de sobrevenir y cuya justicia se ha de reconocer más tarde.
The importance of imitation in this process, a matter of common experience, has been given the fullest sociological prominence, by M. Tarde especially.
She describes how one day, walking out with some friends and following the course of the river Tarde, she had half abandoned herself to the enjoyment of the scene the cascade, the dragon-flies skimming the surface, the purple scabious flowers, the goats clambering on the boulders of rock that strewed the borders and bed of the stream when one of the party remarks: "Here's a retreat pretty well fortified against the Prussians."
G. Tarde, "L'Amour Morbide," Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle, 1890, p. 585. Lucretius, Lib. IV, vv. 1150-1163. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section II, Mem. III, Subs. Judith Cladel, Auguste Rodin Pris sur la Vie, 1903, pp. 103-104. Some slight modifications have been made in the translation of this passage on account of the conversational form of the original.
If a phrase will do instead of an explanation, we may sum them up, with the brilliant French psychologist, Tarde, as "a cross-fertilization of imitations." We need not, however, go far to get an impression of how this process of change works. It is going on every day in our midst under the name of "change of fashion."
Don Tiburcio saw in her a bit of blue sky and asked to be presented. Doña Victorina and Don Tiburcio met. Tarde venientibus ossa, he would have exclaimed if he had known Latin. She was no longer passable, she was past. Her abundant hair had been reduced to a wad about the size of an onion top, as the servants were wont to describe it.
Count v. Quite as curious, and with a less tragic history is La Roche Gageac on the Dordogne, below Sarlat. "Ma chere patrie," wrote the old chronicler, Jean Tarde, "une petite ville bien close et tres forte dependant de la temporalite de l'evesque de Sarlet, la quelle ne fut jamais prinse par les Anglais."
"Listen in turn," Tarde remarks, "to two men who, one cold, the other ardent, one chaste, the other in love, both equally educated and large-minded, are estimating the same thing: one judges as disgusting, odious, revolting, and bestial what the other judges to be delicious, exquisite, ineffable, divine.
Jean Tarde concludes his narrative of the battle with these remarks: 'The English army being thus defeated, Castillon surrendered, and the King in person besieged Bordeaux, which surrendered on October 18. Following its example, all the other towns of Guyenne again submitted to him.
"As a result of what ridiculous economy, and of what Mephistophilian irony," asks Tarde, "has Nature imagined that a function so lofty, so worthy of the poetic and philosophical hymns which have celebrated it, only deserved to have its exclusive organ shared with that of the vilest corporal functions?"
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