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...would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...
Taunting Xavier and his faith, Mirbel agrees to go back to his wife if Xavier will forget about his seminary obligations and come with him. The dark, wind-blown mansion to which Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted boy of nine. There is a vapid secretary-governess who purrs around Xavier like a cat on a hot tiled roof. There is the self-centered stepmother-in-law, a grande dame sans merci...
...gift Xavier brings them-selfless love-they cannot understand. His kindliness to them merely starts Mirbel's wife primping before her mirror and stalking him along the country lanes. As for the demoniacal Mirbel, Xavier's love only puts murder in his heart. Poor, anguished Xavier finally breaks when the local cure smugly assures him that "Christianity is true just insofar as every myth is true." Biking blindly homeward, Xavier either throws himself before Mirbel's car, or is run down in cold blood...
...Magnan-Pellenc's exertions led to a nervous breakdown last fortnight. While she convalesces, the interim torchbearer for the Amazons is tall, slender Mme. Jeanne Mirbel...
...Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
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