Word: renanism
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...Spinoza as rated by Renan...
...imitation of Jesus is today impossible. His clothes, his Aramaic dialect, such things as these, and others deeper still in which his modes of thought and speech were necessarily conformed to the customs of his country and time, we cannot follow. But his character is so universal that even Renan cries: 'Whatever the surprises of history, Jesus will never be surpassed.' Men of all generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their unsurpassable and complete Ideal...
...stylist, great as was Hugo's influence, it is probable that of Anatole France will be greater. A Frenchman can best appraise him. In the Revue Bleue of February 23, 1901, Fernand Gregh said. "Never was the French language better written. . . . It is simply perfection. Renan himself wrote less well as far as pure technique is concerned. . . . He is a brother through the centuries of Marot, Montaigne, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Fenelon, Diderot, and Voltaire. He is the Frenchman. A man who is to such an extent representative, to use one of Emerson's expressions, is a rare...
...book is its succession of keen historical settings. In three short pages he traces the history of Israel from the days of the slavery in Egypt to the later slavery under Rome. And he does it with such vividness that the reader really lives in the time of Christ. Renan, Stalker, Edersheim and any number of others have written the life of Christ. Renan's opening sentence is: "Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, was born in Nazareth." In some theological seminaries it is almost an aphorism that every man must write his own life of Christ. Papini...
Anatole France, poet and philosopher, sounded the call of the opposition to the Government, although confining himself to damning the Treaty of Versailles. Speaking of the nineteenth century philosopher Renan, whose centenary has just been celebrated, M. France said that " he (Kenan) would have been shocked to see that so cruel a war was followed by a treaty which does not end it, which is nothing but the organization of disorder, hatred, discord and poverty in unfortunate Europe." Coming at such a time it is a deftly veiled disapproval of Poincare's policy in the Ruhr, but not too deft...