[291] Henri Kurz, in his introduction to the ‘Simplician’ writings of Grimmelshausen. Leipzig, 1863, 1st part, p. li. See also his remarks on the German of Grimmelshausen (author of Simplicissimus), p. xlv. et seq.
[292] Paul Bourget, op. cit., p. 24.
[293] The sacculus is a cirripedia which lives in the condition of a parasite in the intestinal canal of certain crustacea. It represents the deepest retrograde transformation of a living being primarily of a higher organization. It has lost all its differentiated organs, and essentially only amounts to a vesicule (hence its name: little bag), which fills itself with juices from its host, absorbed by the parasite with the help of certain vessels, which it plunges into the intestinal walls of the latter. This atrophied creature has retained so few marks of an independent animal that it was looked upon for a long time as a diseased excrescence of its host’s intestines.
[294] Maurice Barrès, Trois Stations de Psycho-thérapie. Paris, 1892. ‘Deuxième Station.’
[295] Ibid., Un Homme libre. 3e édition. Paris, 1892.
[296] Ibid., Le Jardin de Bérénice. Paris, 1891, p. 37 et seq.
[297] Ibid., p. 245 et seq.
[298] Ibid., L’Ennemi des Lois. Paris, 1893, pp. 63, 88, 170.
[299] Maurice Barrès, Examen de trois Idéologies. Paris, 1892, p. 14.
[300] Examen de trois Idéologies, p. 36.