The sun., 1910-06-12

makes hef one OF ~, annNtng bnat nef
tendencies were very marked for things
Of the present day.
v.
Next shs joined in the popular edorts
10 reach the Utopia Of socialism by vari-
oua routes. The Saint SimOnians intiu-
encsd her. but not 10 the extent they de-
sired. Another great mind affected by
this cult Was I.AmennRis. who had broken
with Rome when George Sand met him
and was the apOcalyptic author Of Paroles
dun CrOyAnt' She began her celebrated
-Lsttres Marcis' in his journal Ls
Monde. but he sOon became alarmed and
ahs had to discontinue them. FemiRism
was the germ Of their Disagreement and
he gradually broke away from her and her
frisnds and expressed his opinion OF her
with a severity and harshneas that are
worthy Of note. He was the origin Of
a Transformation In her ideas. although
Il IL personihed in another man. and that
other man was named Pierre LsrOux. He
was . very puny parsonage by the aide OF
Iamennais. He had been q compositOr
in q printing once before he founded the
Gbbs. He belonged neither 20 the bour-
geois nor 10 the working class. He was
ahy. unkempt. He expressed bis ideas.
which were already obscure. In a form
which seemed 10 make them even more
obscure Il was wittily said Of him that
whsp digging out his ideas he buried him
self in them. When he spoke at public
meetings he was noted for the nonsense
he talkei in his intsrminable and unintel-
hgibls harangues: and yet In spite Of
all this remarks N. Doumic. the smoke
from this mind attracted George Sand
and became her pillar Of light moving on
before her
The production for the next ten years
ust4-Sn expresses her understanding Of
lerouG's philosophy The idea % me
tempsycho~is was much in vogue al this
epoch. but Pierre lerouX believed In
neicmpsychosis On earth. and MIXED
up with freemasOnry this idea inspired
George sand with sept COrdes De Ia
Lyre.- Spiridion.- -Consuelo- and the
'Comtssse de Rudols;adt Father Alexis
10 -Spiridion- being no other than lseroux
Il vas I.ar0uH also Who led George Sand
to soclalism. whittier she had already
b,cn vending her way Independently
She created an ideal people endowed With
an the virtues. became the sponsor for
bricklayer poet and waxed enthusi-
astic over defective yers = which repro
duced other people ideas Victor Hugo's
in particular Fortunately George Sands
interest IN the people found IL way into
literature In a singularly interesting form
She realized that the habits and customs
~ the people we're very little known
by the other GLASSES aud that there was
an entirely fresh litsFamre 90 create
Before Eugene sue before Victor Hugo
she gave a role 10 a mason. a carpenter
and a joiner The working class entered
literature. and this marks an era She
propagatsd the humanitarian dream
among a whole category u men and
women Who read her books and who but
for her would probably have turned a
deaf ear 20 tho Inducements held out %
them with regard TO this utopia Lamar
tine. with his -Girondins.' reconciled
the bourgeois CLASSES with the R@vOlu-
ton Her books. like his. created a sort
Of snObbism In favor u the elements
u social destruction. the same sort q
snol,hism which RACES az the present
day: but this vas IN ist6. and the time
was drawing near when George Sand
was 20 sse these novels of hers actually
taking place in the street 10 that she could
throw down 20 the rioters the bulletins
that she wrote in their honor This
sOcialistic preaching by means q liter
ature cannot bs treated lightly a. a harm
less thing In this same year she pub
hshet la Mare au Diable. her fine pas
toral novel The taste for pastoral
things had reignsd az the time Of the
Revolution tho same principles leading
up 90 the idyl in literature and the Rsvo-
luton in history. Man vas supposed
20 be- naturally good and the idea was
% take away from him all the restraints
which had been invented for curbing his
nature Thus the golden age Was 10 be-
restored and universal happiness estab-
lishsd Such was the faith of the believers
in the millennium Of ITSs aud Of Ists.
VI.
One og the most surprising pages In
the history of this extraordinary character
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