The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-17
BAL.Z.tt'.
MN, r.mb% In Gisriicatisn 90 the frensn
sphinS ana Cosmos.

To TIM EDITOR oY TuE SEX Sv. To
compare Trollop- To Balzac IL to compare
the well bred scenery OF Prospect Park 20
the Wild almost blasphemous beauty Of
Yellowstone Park Trolope IL Philadel-
phia. BaIzac Ia Paris rrollope IL museum.
Balzac Is a sphinx Trollop- IL IN. Eden
Muse Bal1ac ~ Olympus TToi-Ipe - an
imaginative P-pys. Bal1ac is the Dante Of
intellect
Like Shakespeare. Ceramics Kan.
Goethe. he was clumsy lie was TOO great
FOR hls medium ot expression lie was .
Titan piping on a reed His mind appTe-
hended he All in a glance and he could only
s,amrn-r when he would have Illuminated
His brain was blockaded with ideas
whiTlwind Of visions. emotions and pro
phetlc dreams blew through has mind and
wrecked u When lac conceived book he
felt that a universe Was bulgInc Tor birth
IN him lie was impatient lie could not,
like he Maupass int and Flauberi. spend
years bu,lding n bod sfor the perfect ac-
couchem.nt lie pitched his stun out
savagrly. Ohliuuely. heller SHELTER. for Debt
and Dca'h were at his heels And that -
what call his obscure style
Minds Of the first order never seek foY
style They arc 50 overwhelmed by the
vigor and vanity of their own natures and
visions. are so completely mastered by their
ideas that they smash all rules In this
class are The authors OF the sacred books
OF the last. the Book Of Job and Don uuI'
ote Eabeiai-. Shakespeare. Goethe, Metz
sche. Wagner. Rodin. Walt Whitman. Blake.
Gorky and Balyac were they "-iyli-ts"'
Who cares.
balzac vas seer Ills eve pierced all the
veils Of matter lie was the biographer
OF tn" human soul IA. tops ShakeSp-ar.
and MolIer. lie vro'. the history OF the
Second Umpire, bat Il might have been me
chronicle of any other period in the world
history In,irr the tait.r- Of lIm. he saw
the eternal Man he ripped from ont its
network Of circumstance ana convention
the quiv-rins race instincts and held them
naked ana bloody above ms head. lie
plunged his finger through the TISSUES OF
flesh ana muscle. through the thin mash
that civilized man wears. and touched
firmly the impelling secret motive Hold
ing his finger firmly On the secret spot while
his subject screamed IN shame and humIlia-
ton. Balzac turned an ironic and triumphant
grin on tho spectators
The Coincide Humane ~ Ralzac's an
s~er TO the sphinx = question. Inriddle me
existence And his answer was another
riddle A. bottom Balzac was Hindu Of
the elder age The great sin Of man Ego.
the self the individuRliZed. differentiated
! The soul Of man. TO Bslzac. was an in
ferno OF lusts. "A civ Of sadie visions Man
team Force And man only rises'o greatness
when he looks AZ rs through the mask Of
Nautrin FOR In this world. according To-
Balzac. the Will 20 grandeur and the viii 10
goodness. are az everla sting war
10 BalZac IN. world had been invented
% that he could analyIe u good and evil
were onlt points Of orientatIon. alternst.
co. gns NJ vantage from which he. reporter
for the gods. could watch the fray Van
trin ~ Balyac, from one point -! view Good
and evil existed because IN. gods needed
sport or. 40 lieIne said: because the Arts
tophanes Of tho h.a v-ns vas IN need 81 mirth
Balzac's mind was a huge piece Of the UNI
V-rsal Mind IN which We ayis' merely "a
infu-cria His brain not "A mind II
was breeding place ~" arcouChed his
characters " h-resS Irollnpe only created
hIs The germ 81 every variety ~ human
being existed in ia. mind II BalHaC Like
Z oethe aud ShaL~spear. he was an enClu@-r
III all Species, IDEAS and met hod4 lie gave
birth 20 such vital beings becau4. h. was
giving birth 10 particles nj himself That
- the SIprcm" mystery ~ genus
BalZs' Imagination a. eu"harts'ir lie
lived the life of the race VIGOROUSLY 4
vision as profound a. ~ophoCl.s. Tho godlike !
apprehen sion of fsChylus and Shakespeare I
a power OF coordination a. great a. Rec !
thoven and Herbert spencer IN. titanic |
yigor Of a Goethe and n Walt Whitman and T
the -Iperb Unarit hm"ricaI noEkerN of an I
,ri-;ophanr- and AN Ib-.n he too WAS a /
tusmo> BE>JaMi> BE C,sssRFS
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