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...Bourget's view that Renan is an intellectual aristocrat borne out by facts...
...number of the Monthly issued today certainly attains its object, "the publication of the best literary work of the students of the University." There are only four articles but these are thorough and excellent treatments of subjects full of interest to a thoughtful reader. The leading article is "Renan," by II. Gardiner. It is a long and systematic treatment of the life and works of this, perhaps the greatest of modern Frenchmen. The article gives a short biographical sketch of Renan tracing step by step the development of his ideas and opinions, giving even the hasty reader a clear notion...
...Renan was distinctly an intellectual man without sentiment. He never felt love as a passion...
...Renan's idea of God was that the highest there is in man is in itself God, and this is expressed in the beautiful. Thus God is an attribute of man, and therefore man must strive for perfection, to be attained through the intellect. Renan said that prayer is not needed...
...Renan was intellectually an aristocrat. He looked down on all inferiors and be lived that man should not attempt any good deed unless he could be sure of moving the whole mass of people. This made him scornful of all ordinary...