8 KMILE BOUTROUX 



whose influence the world still feels, he exalted 

 the virtue and the happiness which spring 

 from a naive confidence in the simple sugges- 

 tions of the heart and of nature and claimed 

 for these the superiority over the intelligence 

 working apart from the soul and from the 

 sense of life. Not that he ended with the idea 

 of proscribing the sciences and the intelligence. 

 He was not long in recognizing that, once 

 lighted, the torch of science can never go out. 

 And so, although he rejects the idea of science 

 as the master of life he accepts the idea of 

 science as the servant of life: the sciences and 

 the intelligence have a wholesome and neces- 

 sary part in culture if they are directed by the 

 heart restored to its primitive rectitude. 



In this way, at many recurrent intervals 

 during the course of human evolution, the 

 genius of culture has set itself face to face 

 with the genius of science threatening to take 

 possession of the entire man, and has tri- 

 umphed over the tyrannical pretensions of 

 its rival, without denying to science, kept in 

 its proper place, the right to its legitimate 

 development. 



