[1] Session of the 8th December 1910. [↑]
CHAPTER XXII
THE LAST HEIGHTS[1] (1910–1915)
I
In the year 1910 Fame flung the gate of the harmas wide open. Coming late, she seemed anxious to repair her long neglect.
The process of reparation continued. It grew fuller, more marked, and burst into a splendid apotheosis during the following years.
Scientists as a class had accused Fabre of mixing up Horace and Virgil with his entomological adventures. He was despised for quoting these authors; he was placed upon the Index for introducing grace and passion into studies which officially were dry and cold as statistics. But in joining the Académie Française on the occasion of the jubilee of 1910, the Académie des Sciences gloriously avenged this unjust and Pharisaical disdain.