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Henri Franck is known to the
,re,seil races and of all peoples. held :abandon the Temple that
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of olidly to its (wantons of hurnani- youth but now stills, his soul, there
mention hi, slams' before a
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defense when, are perhaps other gods elsewhere.
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3,,, o r a young woman of 20, his face arias anal republican
conducted tinder the names of the
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the contemporary of his youth, of iis insolent landing at 'Tangier. Del. "'f he god
of pages
youth,
who holds a book
blank,
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that period when the main lines of 'rise fell from power and, although I
god of those of riper years, who
view there
sits with them,
French thought of today were being from a superfic ial point of
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as they emerged froma Ad) and flow of French political life The peasants' goal, who in the mar- 0,
elaborated
the
are now operated
great crisis. For the other, he is an aeenied unaltered, the soul of the
, ' holds his awaYa
Ariel, a Shelley, one of those excep. French intelligenzia had changed.! Th kel
goa l of fishermen, who rises when
Now, since there are always nations
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'bum' beings for whom all the h e
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of nature descend at who desire to invoke force as the was
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the biter of rights and interests, it
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their birth to shower upon them
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world,
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-kindness, tenderness, time to think no more of Me
extol God of the North, whose
divines( gifts--kindness,
I.,thers, but of oneself.
bram•ly alowit the slopea ,
benevolence, charm, intelligence, in.
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youth were turned no longer
Tim' Southern god. who feeds upon :4,
gennity, humor, genius-- and which if
the great I
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soul of
the luscious fig
pass, leaving a radiant track in the he loving, generous
orator, Jaures, but tow ards' B ' •tie
at su h miner,bri
the
ghtn a i ss of the empty '3::
air, before old age, trials and bitter- Socialist
Caesarian,
Nationalists
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the
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s day,
he
i . God
(piss have been able to touch them
was keenly interested Barres; the royalist, Maurraa, and
ihe conqueror, who mgrs like 0
with other concerns, and involves no change in
Like Shelley, he
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In the great problems of public life, Me Catholic.military party. beaten
ownership or personnel.
but not conquered by the de .. k nal monarch of the dying, like he fej
down
of science and liberty. Ile aspired to
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for fear of "rhetoric" -the bete-noire its ranks Henri Franck, who, after a And he finals still other gods: the g al
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first by our high powered air process, then a renovating
remarkably successful scholastic ea- of friendship, the goal of artistic c -
of Verlaine and the symbolists who t
(scrubbing) which restores original colors.
nor, had just left college? How at ion, the god of the fatherland, of :::',
followed him- - the poets were fr. - •
quently reducing their art to a brief would he solve this dual problem, po- all fatherlands, the new anal the add /0
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impressionism, he had the courage to Intent and intellectual, that presented worlds . But none of them is the god
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revive the great intellectual poems. itielf to his brilliant and lucid mind , he seeks, the god for whom he hum jf.
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He left only one poem, of
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verses--"La Douse ;levant l'A rche" ning his advanced studies, enter ng 1 ai
(The Dance Before the Ark), about at the Ecole Norniale Superieure, the carries "the weight a god should 0,1
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hundred pages of articles and essays. university?
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It is here that we arrive at a point
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work is of great importance, for it if not a disciple of Marx, at any rate where philosophy
and where Bergsonian intui-
forms a typical example of the rear- a reformer he always remained. As further,
little able s' apprehend
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Mon of I. rench culture On a Jew of i f:: r elidSuepaOtToi nb .1 el , p
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rationalism
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the
a fancily in easy circumstances which
the Republi- For it is impossible to reconcile life
had been long settled on French ter- forts which the best of '
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the Goal who creates life. Creation
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His parents belonged to a Franco- working classes in their intellectual.
is limi ation, and if God limits t Him-
Jewish middle-class family, originally political and social emancipation.
self He abandons all that part of His
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cower which is an liar' nita of
While no longer keeping up the prac-
thought. Ile ceases to be God.
tice of Judaism, they had not lost all explain
friend, that
competent
men
should
to the
workers "the
n ecess
its
But if the intellect here reaches its
memory of Jewish life, although their of hygiene. . . practical methods limitations, if the philosopher is un-
. of introducing comfort and able to deduce a God exterior to him-
'social position entailed a non-Jewish,
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clus, the Brissauds, belonged to the should be awakened in them what you ized, as Spinoza and the Jewish mys-
Republican bourgeoisie, a highly cul- might perhaps call their evil instincts, tics well realized, that there is a spark
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all the manifesta-
his early childhood was contemporary ital exercises over them. That is (ions of life: Action and fhoug t.
with the assaults — "Boulanosm," ' what
wpat seems to e an urgent and nec-
Panama, the Dreyfus trial—which de- essary duty, to which I must devote "0 wondrous brilliancy, 0 ardor with-
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vital heat.
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in Life's fervor rules;
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that mine,
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necessary
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the
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hers,
movement towards owlet charity, men( of their being, body anti soul,
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beating
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•were interesting themselves in van- as the "Socialist city.""
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adherent+ of Dreyfus to the soiled satians, of the other French groups
wondrous joy,
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hands of the politicians. There was who were so soon to he torn from This time of trial gone, to see at last
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a sharing-out of the spoils. Free- France by a too powerful Germany?
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thinkers, liberal Catholics, Protest- "It is therefore our duty," he again No longer can I fear the shades of
ants, Syndicalists and workers began wrote to one of his friends, who had
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0 to wonder if it had been worth while become, shortly before he himself did
taut over the poet's song death was,
. upsetting a great country, even in the so. a professor of philosophy, "and
. nonce of the loftiest principles, in or- my own duty as a middle-class Jew little by little, casting its vast shallow,
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. . it is our duty to help the peo- It was while staying in the country
der to raise to power a mob of sec-
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, . , a pie, to clear the way for the civiliza- for the benefit of his declining health
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. time of doubts and regrets, which
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' synchronied. with a troubled period what must he soared from deStruc- L'Arche" and put into order the frag-
' ant ill .sual matters . a time when lion, what values must be respected." ments that he had already written.
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Although he admired in Barres, the
irrational it o c t r i n e s — Bergson's
'theories and pragmatism—were be- stylist, the poet in whom 'art was The
illness
which of
had
attacked
at the
beginning
1910
was slight,
writer and almost any other than he would
Iginning to be accepted in the schools, supreme," the spontaneous
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' and in popular books and magazines who recalled to us, sufficiently rough-
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openly
attacking
intellectual
ly
those
essential
truths
which
had
have
successfully
resisted
it.
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he
felt
himself
at
the
height
of
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values founded on science and reason. been too mach neglected by the ra. lectual activity and his creative en-
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many recruits to the Modernist- generations that preceded him, Henri t,i"o‘r through us, whatever the o«a-
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laedrlayit may bring,
Catholic movement, from which Franck could not forgive Barres or, ' fi w..wshiaatcecveeprtailtaigig
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1 Rome, in its prudence, had not yet having always been on the side of '
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seen fit to dissociate itself. The the anemias of his race, of having
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'younger students, up till then seep- danced the scalp-dance around the till him that a few months' rest
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literature,
both
fol-
condemnation
and
degradation
of
dly
cure
him,
he
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ties), the newest
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la undoubtedly of joy burning
lowed the trend towards mysticism. Dreyfus. Mures was not a French-' ci.
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But the riper scholars, the university man of the great type, fine and chival-
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a mankind misses.
t a crossroad
where
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France that dreamed of the day when ` r°
On Feb. 23, 1912, he drafted'
it would he possible to announce to bed
out another article. Then he rested'
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