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pas que 1'univers entier s'arme pour 1'ecraser. Tine 

 vapeur, une goutte d'eau, suffit pour le tuer. Mais 

 quand 1'univers 1'ecraserait, 1'homme serait encore 

 plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait qu'il 

 meurt \ et 1'avantage que 1'univers a sur lui, 1'univers 

 n'en sait rien." Pensees de Pascal. 



Note 23 (p. 85). 



The use of the word " Nature " here may be criti 

 cised. Yet the manifestation of the natural tendencies 

 of men is so profoundly modified by training that it 

 is hardly too strong. Consider the suppression of 

 the sexual instinct between near relations. 



Note 24 (p. 86). 



A great proportion of poetry is addressed by the 

 young to the young ; only the great masters of the 

 art are capable of divining, or think it worth while 

 to enter into, the feelings of retrospective age. The 

 two great poets whom we have so lately lost, Tennyson 

 and Browning, ha/ve done this, each in his own 

 inimitable way ; the one in the Ulysses, from which 

 I have borrowed ; the other in that wonderful 

 fragment ' Childe Roland to the dark Tower came.' 



