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chair was offered him, that he was to be careful 

 of entering on the arena of religious discussion. 

 It would seem that in the broad generalizations 

 which he has made on the distinctive characters 

 of the Indo-Germanic and Shemitic races, he has 

 handled a very delicate topic with great freedom. 

 The delivery of the lecture gained for him a most 

 gratifying and unexpected exhibition of feeling on 

 the part of the Paris students, so prompt and 

 decided, and sometimes so despotic in their ver- 

 dicts on public characters, whose manifestations, 

 however, are delightful even to professors, and 

 whose opinions have to be considered, no less by 

 journalists, as a power in the country. 



" M. Kenan's friends were not without some 

 apprehensions about his reception, as the student- 

 population of the present time is passionately 

 sensitive on all topics of a religious nature, owing 

 to the interest which is felt on the Italo-Roman 

 question. The lecturer, however, though he came 

 out triumphantly from this ordeal, met with less 

 favour from the authorities of the College de 

 France and the Government, for his lectures have 

 been suspended." 1 



1 Since this was written M, Renan has heen allowed to resume 

 his lectures. Thursdays are to be devoted to Philological Lectures, 

 without political or religious discussion, and Saturdays to Illustra- 

 tions of the Book of Job. 



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