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...Frenchmen spent the week in panicky expectation of whatever Finance Minister ("Wizard") Caillaux was about to produce from beneath the cloak of secrecy cast over even the least important of his doings...
...Aristotle he believed in man's ability to conquer nature. But he corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic-accumulating facts, theorizing later. He destroyed a great number of scholastic "Idols" by his penetrating inquiries and was hailed even by Frenchmen, who dedicated their great Encyclopedia to him just as Englishmen founded the Royal Society (1660) in his name when he was long dead. His suggestions were carried out broadly by his secretary, Hobbes; in inductive psychology by Locke; in utilitarian economics by Bentham. Baruch Spinoza (1632-77). No sooner...
...Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) author of La Marseillaise employed similar tactics when arraigned before a French jury on a capital charge. "Frenchmen!" he cried, "Hear my defense: I am guilty, but I am the author of La Marseillaise...
This summer, Carl Maria von Weber has been dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...
...what affront, quite comprehensible to Frenchmen, did one Berthelin skewer one Davillard...