The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
AUTHOR TO SPREAD
FRENCH IDEAS HERE
Jules Bots, Specialist on Fem
inism. Coming TO l.. s.
to Lecture.
SAYS FRANCE HAS FAITH
SPECIAL Correspondence 10 TVS srS

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Paris. Feb. i2-Jules Buis Is rar
from being a typical French literary
man. \ List of his writings shows how
diversified are his interests. and his
~f5vorite sports (according to the list.
presumably supplied by himself. TO the
French who's Who") are fencing,
bicycle and horse riding. automotilin ny
and Jiu-ttsu. while as a collector he
speclSllIeS in Hindu cutIositieA But
what SiTereutiates him more than any
thing elss from the typical French
litterateur is his interest N other lands
h his own. whereas such lands do
not exist for the French man OF letters
az a rule.
He has visited India. travelled In
Asia made researches in Crete n
northern Africa. and now. az he belongs
to the class of 1855. which Is not likely
TO We called 10 the colors. he is going
to visit the United States. to spread
French IDEAS and ideals by laying them
before the public. but not ty attacking
those of any other nation.
Although NJ Bois's interests are 70
diversified he - a specialist in two
subjects, femiuism and ~psyGhical re
search. The world IL old, h said to
THE SUNS correspondent, and wants
renewal. aIrd that renewal will come
from woman and when men can utilize
psychic forces which exist, although a.
yet they have only been studied and
employed by charlatans He has made
a grssrt study OF the oo'uit. and his
library seems to possess books written
by authorities in ever country. inciud-
ing those OF hts personal friend Nive-
kanauda Cwho visited New York in the
'"os). He reads English, but declares
that he ctnnot speak II.
After showing THE SUS's co-respon-
dent a Score OF the interesting things
N ais apartment overlooking the Bots
de Eoulocne-one OF the two death
masks taken OF Victor Hugo THE other
being in the Hugo Museum reproduce
tons OF Old Greek soddesses found in
Crete, one wearing a laced corset and
he Other a founced dress which would
have been the height OF the fashion
not a year ago brass work from India,
and SO Ohm. Bois spoke OF one sub
Jet which he hoped to deal with in
mis- lectures in Alnerica-ths two form.
OF faith In France
France is a COUNTRY OF faith" ne
said. The patriotism our fellow conn
tryInen are showing, even to death,
and what Is more prafseworthy. by pa
t~ntfy enduring while awaiting death
or victory. that patriotism which il no
more a word but a daily acts IL not
n great taith? This faith is what rec
oDcles the apparent ~antaGonism not
between faith properly 50 cAlsd and
sceptlcsm properly SO called but be-
tween the two creeds, each real. sincere
and @fervent, which divide France b..
tween them.
France is not. ~ . generally i'm
asiued, divided into believers and non
believers. We are, thu great majority.
an believers, but our methods are not
alike, our rituals are different.
Some possess the traditional faith, the
faith of relig on, But is not everything
that is sincere and idealist religious In
its way, in its essence? Others faith
is secular and human. Some believe
according TO the revealed word. others
according 20 a word revealed also. but
outside any special church. by the con-
science. Some have lived and die to-
day with eyes fixed upon a heaven
to them BY pious rites others
have lived and die TODAY with eyes
dazzled by the light OF human duty.
But it would he folly, MADNESS to be-
lieve that antagonism or incompatible
lty exists between traditional believers
and free believers"