[279] Madame Dorval.
[280] La Maison du Berger. Note that in Wordsworth the “still sad music of humanity” is very closely associated with nature.
[281] La Bouteille à la Mer.
[282] See Book IX of the Nicomachean Ethics.
[283] “All salutary conditions have their root in strenuousness” (appamāda), says Buddha.
[284] See Masters of Modern French Criticism, Essay on Taine, passim. Paul Bourget in his Essais de Psychologie contemporaine (2 vols.) has followed out during this period the survivals of the older romantic melancholy and their reinforcement by scientific determinism.
[285] “Le pauvre M. Arago, revenant un jour de l’Hôtel de Ville en 1848 après une épouvantable émeute, disait tristement à l’un de ses aides de camp au ministère de la marine: ‘En vérité ces gens-là ne sont pas raisonnables.’” Doudan, Lettres, IV, 338.
[286] See Preface (pp. viii-ix) to his Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse and my comment in The New Laokoon, 207-08.
[287] Most of the political implications of the point of view I am developing I am reserving for a volume I have in preparation to be entitled Democracy and Imperialism. Some of my conclusions will be found in two articles in the (New York) Nation: The Breakdown of Internationalism (June 17 and 24, 1915), and The Political Influence of Rousseau (Jan. 18, 1917).
[288] Reden an die deutsche Nation, XII.