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CHAPTER XXII 



THE LAST HEIGHTS * (1910-1915) 

 I 



N the year 1910 Fame flung the gate of 



the harmas wide open. Coming late, she 

 seemed anxious to repair her long neglect. 



The process of reparation continued. It 

 grew fuller, more marked, and burst into a 

 splendid apotheosis during the following 

 years. 



Scientists as a class had accused Fabre of 

 mixing up Horace and Virgil with his en- 

 tomological adventures. He was despised 

 for quoting these authors; he was placed 

 upon the Index for introducing grace and pas- 

 sion into studies which officially were dry 

 and cold as statistics. But in joining the 

 Academie Francaise on the occasion of the 

 jubilee of 1910, the Academie des Sciences 

 gloriously avenged this unjust and Phari- 

 saical disdain. 



But there were yet some of " time's re- 



1 This chapter was written by the Abbe Fabre espe- 

 cially for the English edition. B. M. 

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