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agents in the East. and TO tie officers commanding
the French squadron In the Levant On his return to
France, In 1861. he was decorated with the Order
of the Legion OF Honor. and appointed Hebrew Pro.
fessor at the College OF France ii post 20 which be
had aspired for many years. His next literary pro
ductiOn study The Part Played by the
Semitic Races in the History Of Civilization" uo62)
In this work the professor avowed that he had no
belief in the divinity OF Jesus Christ,
cry raised from various sides that such views
ought not to be officially professed from Government
chair NJ. Renan replied to the attacks made against
him In pamphlet entitled The Chair OF Hebrew at
the College of France; Explanations TO My Col
leagues" lie maintained in this publication his right
to treat the highest problems OF religious history and
10 resolve them in accordance with the teachings Of
science, but attention given TO his apology.
The Minister of Public Instruction, seeing that II he
renstated the professor he would have to enter into
a struggle with the whole Catholic clergy OF France,
offered NJ Renan in lieu Of his proiessorshp All I'M
portant po,t the National Library. NJ Renan de
clined TO accept this arrangement, and simultaneously
with his refusal to go to the National Library was
made known his dismissal from the College OF France.
In 1863 VI. Renan brought out the work by which
he is most widely known-that Vie de Jesus" which
has been enthusiastically lauded and violently
condemned and which, whatever its merits and its
defects, has found readers all the world There
is hardly a civilized Language into which 1t has not
been translated and there is scarcely II country in
Europe fIom which attacks against it have not pro-
cecded. During the first success of the book 1t was
almost much the fashion to answer Ecnan aS 10
accept and admire him In 1868 NJ. Rcnan for the
first time occupied himself with politicsIor. rather,
for the FIRST tirle published work on the subject
His Questions COntemporaines attracted considerable
attention, ana after its appearance NJ Renan de-
clared himself willing to represent the sec nj Crcum-
rption of the Seine coming forward In opposition
both 10 the Republican candidate and TO the candidate
favored by the Government. In his address TO the
electors he declared himself supporter OF Mona chy,
aided by the governing classes and resting upon
a free Parliament. lie received a considerable num-
Der of votes, but not returned. Alter the war OF
1870 the author Of the VIC de Jesus addressed a
remarkable letter to the author OF the "Leben JeSu
on the causes and consequences OF the conflict Just
terminated. In this work, Renan expresses to Strauss
NJ Rcnan WAS elected member OF the
French academy in ls7o and in The same year
Florence. In 1850 he delivered in London,
in his native language the Hilbert lectures on
The Influence Of the Institutions Thought and Culture
of Rome on Christianity, and the Development of the
Catholic Church." In the same year he alo delivered
the Roman Emperor NJ. Renan was the author OF Il
large number OF works. Am0ng these Nantique
des Cantiques" o. 500. Mission de Fhcncie' 1s6i).
Trois nscr ptlons Phenciennes' SOD. Les Apores'
raiOue NSo7). les Inscriptions Hcbraiques des
synagogues de Kefr- Berem Gaileen noG1, Rapport
Sur les Progress de Ia Literature Orcntalc RelaiS a
lOrient" No61), La Mission en- Phemcic io.ti'
spinoza' u577 Histoire des Orignes du Chris-
| ,ianism1 n863-l8s2), souvenirs dEnancc ct de
Jeunesse" o53) The History Of the People OF Israel
till the Time of David" Noo9). and The History OF
| l,rae before the Birth OF Christ II Is III ms
souvenirs dEnfance ct de Jeunesse' that " ReIan
discloses why he separated from the Cath0hc h.rSn
| while remaining "a moral disciple OF Jesus. III 1883
he was appointed Rector OF the College of France.