New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-20
FRANCE.
JULES FAvRE IN THE ACADEMY-IMPoRTANT
SPEECH BY MINISTER DURUY.

Inc reception OF q new member OF the French
Academy is always notable event in Paris. Extra
literary circumstances lend to that of Jules Favre
which took place yesterday an extraordinary i'm
pOrtance 1t may be well enough to observe, for the
benefit of the intelligent mot to say pharisaic for
cgncr who mistakes that phase of society which
Alexander Dumas, IT,, depicts for all ParisP that
hundreds of thousands of NJ Favre's inaugural
discourse already III circulation. The daily papers,
whose managers may be supposed to know some
thng of the tastes of the public, have made room 1or
ii in their columns to-day. While the crowded au-
dience were listening to applauding its rich roll
ing periods at the Palace of the Institute yesterday
afternoon compOsitors were busily setting 1t up IN
type for the evening journals. 1t was bought and
read by these frivolous corrupt Parisans as we model
New-YoTkers buy and read q Presidents message
And yet. it is finished literary discourse on the
highest themes that can occupy the intellect OF man.
Succeeding to the armchair of Victor COUSIN;
favre's main official theme was the lie ana WORKS Oh
his predecessor. This he extended beyond mere geu-
erOus, personal eulOgy and retrospective review
raising i by t opportunity to an eloquen 1 a pU EN-
Liberty 1t is advocating the lnallenable, divine
right of men to these two liberties IN MAINTAINING
that each the needfnl complement OF the 0tIer,
and that their combination was the needtul, only
sound base for religion as well as science
to operate from against error, fof society eu 70
rest and safely advance on, that his discourse
takes its dctHdlity, and becomes very slghlneant
document for the student Of current history III Is
and will provoke such sharp and critical ana otner
controversy among its readers. Its bold affirmation
of every mans night TO nntrammele9 IIee t =,
France, to say nothing OF p0htcai seets
and religious clubs and social parties III
nameless other coUntTies-equaly onends lmpeIiai
Minister Dury and Church Minister his Grace OF
Orleans. There are bigoted Liberals WHOM u VII
not suit and materialists who will quarrel with It,
Here rs elsewhere there are pious folks who serve
the Lord though the Devil were after tnehl, ana
ardent seciaries of their own phoSophcai OF poliL
- eli Iopfxr II.
hastards in a right line OF descent from lof-
quemada - a.. All,
strings OF school, or sect OF party He has that tran
scendental faith in truth which believes 1t strong
enough to hold It's own IN never so open isIs of iS
combat Scientific truth and religious truth--it b0th
are truths-eannot possibly DJure each 0ther, II only
thor seeming contest can be decided openly;
the issue of their measuring OF strengths must ne
mutual recognition and union of forces against Inc
common enemy. Ii, however, really or supposedly
acquired truth Is dsiehoeq Nv i ts nature is
in a sort mechanically administrative ana essen
TALLY non-thinking it Is fatally exposed 70 the
charge of inherent weakness to assimilation OF repu-
tafion with its defender. While it is eaten into by
sort of dry rot, it does in this condition prov9Ae
desertiOn "When the breath of free investigation
is in the air. to forbid from spreading their sals
TO it is to encourage them to dTlft at nazsId
and make shpwreck. Consequently Win TINS nn S
regulate everything, which allows something 10 PM
losophy but consrans her not to look IN the lace or
hidden subjects, we have lately seen materlallsln
reyiyinQ with OstentatiOn, and seducing portion OF
the rising generation of young men and hurrying
them toward Atheism, its fatal consequence. .,
questions of the day with which FaYres lively elo-
quent discourse abounds 1t is one OF the many
Bishop DupanlOup and the lmpenaly orthodox
minister Duruy, that justly illustrates the
S SpiStusIist in his philOsophy Roman Catholic
in his religion, and Constitutional Liberal IN MS poi
itics He has rational and therefore strong enough
trial in the open field of freedom. The s0-cailed
m Catholic clerical party. of whom the bishop OF
N Orleans has for the moment become the most
prominent and conveniently typical representative
man. protests against the opening OF the lists.
Bishop Dupanloup IdO suffer 10 open apaTenthess
hcr for tIe sake of hanging on its brackets notice of
the more or less singular fact that MI Dupanloup Isl
N his way sort 81 here inst for his
lberalityand has many traits OF resemblance IN Ms
iatellectual and even NORA ns.Ii0 IN =" ma.
isxalhgaYn Ed sssefst ' epTfhg frec thought
fair chance, and addresses his protest to Govern
menk He protests against Minister Duruy's newly
young unprotected females. He calls on Government
TO stop the growth Of materalsm in the medical and
other schools He is logical enough in his protests
and his demands Government does undertake the
of the Church well of the State; it
himself Is teacher of religious dogma, recognized
and paid as a Government official The Medical
School of Paris is Government school, as much as
is the EcoIe Polytechnic Its professors are Govern
ment officers the eminent hstOiOgist Robin, the
nlsterialist, Just as hearty az the Bshop-ratheT
removed from his Office OF Professor of
Hebrew at the College of France because he
proved himself in his first lecture heterodOx
philOlogist. Dupanloup then demands logically
enough that Government see to the stopping of ma
teriast and other improper teaching in It's thought
factories. And Government is embarrassed enough
10 meet the demand. Napoleon has resisted the pres
sure, thus far that was brought TO bear for the
Dova of Duruy. the Minister of Instruction On the
other hand Minister Duruy yielded far as to have
the materiastie thesis handed in by young Grenier
candidate for the diploma of 81. ID.
This week Mr.. Duruy has made long speech to
the delegates OF the learned Societies OF France
up 20 Paris to be talked az and receive their prizes
1t would appear TO the general reader Of this speech
that the Emperor decided not to yield at all to
tie demands of the Clerical party. He lNapoleonl
truth that he does not dread, error ITSELF
he believes thoroughly III the power OF
reason as TO be convinced that good
causes have nothing TO fear from false systems This
is why he respects phosophc liberty even in its ex
trayagances long as they do not offend the com
mon law special regulations" The final condition
of his respect for liberty Of thinking is of large fast
and-lOose. compass; And yet il does not satisfy
the clericos, still less the hberos. 1t leaves
everything where it found it. under the regime
of expectancy and bon ptaisir-a regime OF
in 1851 Mr.. Yacherot dismissed from his Office OF
director of the Ec0te hOrBlale by Prince President
Napoleon on account of his free errors Of opinion;
in 1850 he was tried and tOf counsel condemned by
the Imperial tribunal of police for his free erroneous
opinions. What lost him his place was his
book entitled a Critical History Of ne School
Of Alexandria. What gained him his condemnation
was his book entitled Democracy Both these works
are philosophical neither is sensational or popular
In 1868, their author meantime not having changed
an opinion, In spite of the persuasive discipline
of Imprisonment, is elected to I'LL the place made va
cant in the Academy OF Moral and Political Sciences
by the death of Cousin and his election is approved
BY the Emperor. Take another instance: one day
last February, the most authorized OF NapoleOn's
nsuiaf in