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that know better how to treat them. The matter is 



foreign to the man, and is not of him ; the manner is 



the man himself." * 



" Le style, c'est I'homme meme," Elsewhere he tells 



lis what true style is, but I quote from memory and 



cannot be sure of the passage. " Le style," he says, " est 



comme le bonheur ; il vient de la douceur de I'ame." 



Is it possible not to think of the following ? — 



" But whether there be prophecies they shall fail ; 



whether there be tongues they shall cease ; whether 



there be knowledge it shall vanish away .... and 



now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three ; but 



the greatest of these is charity." t 



* ' Discours de Exception a I'Acad^mie Pian^aise.' 

 t 1 Cor. xiii. 8, 13. 



