254 BIBLIOGRAPHY 



i860 (October)-(November) 



VIdealisme anglais, etude sur Carlyle [English Idealism, essay on Carlyle]. 



First appeared as a series of articles on 'Carlyle' in the Journal des Debats 

 (i860): 'I, II. Son style et son esprit' (30-31 October), 'III. De I'introduction 

 des idees allemandes en Europe et en Angleterre' (6 November), 'IV. Le 

 philosophe' (7 November), 'V. L'historien' (8 November). 



Republished as a book, under the above title, with a 'Preface' (Paris: 

 Germer Bailliere, February, 1864, 191 pages). Later incorporated in the 

 concluding volume of the History of English Literature, as the chapter on 'Philo- 

 sophy and History. — Carlyle'. 



1861 (March) 



Le Positivisme anglais, etude sur Stuart Mill [English Positivism, essay on Stuart 

 Mill] 



First appeared as an article: 'John Stuart Mill et son Systeme de logique', 

 Revue des Deux-Mondes, i March, 1 86 1 . 



Republished as a book, under the above title, with a 'Preface' (Paris: Germer 

 Bailliere, January, 1864, 157 pages). Later incorporated in the concluding 

 volume of the History, as the chapter on 'Philosophy. — Stuart Mill'. 



English: English Positivism {St. Mill), translated by T. D. Haye, London, 

 1870. 



1861 



Etienne Mayran 



This was a novel, largely autobiographical, which Taine began in 1861 and 

 never finished (see our Chapter II, Notes 10, 11, 17). Vuhlhhtd posthumously 

 by Paul Bourget, it undoubtedly casts some light on the causes of Taine's illness 

 during the years 1 857-1 860. A number of self-analytic notes that Taine wrote 

 in 1862 (F. & C, II, 259-264) also throw some light on the conflict in him 

 between the scientist-critic and the would-be artist: 



Ma forme d'esprit est fran9aise et latine: classer les idees en files reguli^res 

 avec progression a la fagon des naturalistes, selon les regies des ideologues, 

 bref oratoirement. . . . 



Le surplus vient de la philosophic: mon effort est d'atteindre I'essence, 

 comme disent les Allemands, non de prime assaut, mais par une grande route 

 unie, carrossable. Remplacer I'intuition (insight), I'abstraction subite 

 (Geist Vernunft) par I'analyse oratoire. Mais cette route est dure a creuser. 



Depuis dix ans (24 a 34) tout le courant de ma reflexion et de mon 

 education a tendu a transformer I'idee abstraite, seche, en idee developpee 

 et vivante. C'est le passage de la formule a la vie; il y avait un squelette qui 

 a pris de la chair. 



De la, inconvenients et avantages (p. 259). 



Quand je me regarde interieurement, il me semble que men etat d'esprit 

 a change, que j'ai detruit en moi un talent, celui de I'orateur et du rhetori- 



