(1843-1904)
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE
PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF FRANCE
TRANSLATED BY
CLOUDESLEY BRERETON
M.A., L. ÈS L.
WITH A PREFACE BY H.G. WELLS
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
1905
The whole of Tarde is in this little book.
He has put into it along with a charming fancy his genialness and depth of spirit, his ideas on the influence of art and the importance of love, in an exceptional social milieu.
This agreeable day-dream is vigorously thought out. On reading it we fancy we are again seeing and hearing Tarde. In order to indulge in a repetition of the illusion, a pious friendship has desired to clothe this fascinating work in an appropriate dress.
A.L.
CONTENTS
DEDICATION
PREFACE By H.G. WELLS
[INTRODUCTORY]
[I.] PROSPERITY
[II.] THE CATASTROPHE
[III.] THE STRUGGLE
[IV.] SAVED
[V.] REGENERATION
[VI.] LOVE
[VII.] THE ÆSTHETIC LIFE
[NOTE] ON TARDE By JOSEPH MANCHON