New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
Anatole France at Home
By Burton Rascoe

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rt from faithful and lively record by Gsell is that Of y
much gossip and slightly malicious anecote not
,h amusing colleagues exnensa ~ ~
entertainment or of character portrayal about small
hearted about weighy matters tolerant
and too NJ Gs accurate M France :; or
most charming convrsaonasts whose ever
ssr poserity
Bs Boogne on Sunday mornings Everybody welcome
eccesasts scholars and statesmen academcans and
is royal and socialists among the motley crew ~ man
came him in admiration and agreement with
questioned consulted and argued with Thev met there
trims Of equality The of great man assured them
M they would be listened to with octoua regard Upon them NJ
M tells u.s. the effect Of some ~ h ;
egn recording them print results Of his snecula
studies his infinite abors perfection of his stvle ba
~ n his guests dsspatng often probably in tak h.+ , So -
[ zeaousy for the first appearance ched images and
This the compliment n.
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and made them submey ridiculous seems not tn have
He all Of Frances satire always fine and generous
n and sympathy which admits the universal fraty the flesh
J rS mndones with a wise understanding.
Paul Partisan journalist apparently attended all hsse
s Frances house and took spot of Frances dis
revealing these records that may we'll stand as
ulent Frances work There Implications; but it will be
that France often himself the collaboration
nth Ague Rodn IN the sculptos treatise Art Mr. Boyd
m pansakng and excellent translation only by some po
bnders which, doubtless will be editions
announced the other day had again put
his works This the Vatican has DONE think several times
a notably after the publication dArc but possibly
with wink for, elsewhere Anatoe France
the truest Christian living Europe He has frequently
himself disciple of Lueus Epicurus his most
vue-huml charity sympathy py-are Christian not
virtues His whole thought and aesthetics tnged
the Christian saints have been his bsession beautiful
the Bible have by the anti
campaign to forbid the reading of the Bible by the
always the side Of tolerance doing
frequently changed Sides prejudice
prevent hatred and crime skepc with him.
Skept1cm!"
with negaon and impotence great
sometimes the affirmative
s They only negations They everything
that letters the ind and the will They struggled
as against oppresse against intolerance that
cruelty toures against kills
They accused of having been unbeiever But know
belief is virtue and whether genuine strength does not lie in
g believe not difficult
that those Frenchen Of genius who called skpcs
Each Of them formulated some article it
s bufoon full of majesty
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@ the wisdom Of the ancien Foreeting the osc;aon - his
g mind he nokes pity religious
rary of judicial torture Above ALL homage
a4Hy Of friendship In his widest carers the ,nbeievn
loses sight Of his ideal Of knowledge kndneye
for this sairist unknd the
E@h Finally Renan ALWAYS remained q nrest an be dd w. ~
religion He believed in the divine learnng believed in the
e of mankind Thus all skeptics ardour
deliver their felowmen from the chains drag In
No. reading would do any
man very strengthen ones
%Mh, if only faith in mankind.
That extraordinarily brilliant young Irish Catholic Kettle
france Of which the principle the prfound)
french skepc implicit the title "The
He said that France always like
incapable of vor and fine frenzy healthy ebuence
EMOTION that the iron had sunk into his soul left him tired
pher and gentle counsellor
aL This probably
was already middle before he began
ave no youth; they the He
@ for his poems chilly classical in their Parnaan
l&aahecture
& anoe France writes Kettle, sis scandal stumbling block
many serious minds Of the deep waters of religion he has
ne Is short, the psychologists he has blind
MS soul But that said remember that
the whole Christian
life rooted pesmis, becomes philosophy of
o IN which the ideal quite the crumbng in
yH@sFnc OF matter? had the Of his
management He continues the tradition of that Latin and
pemsm which ISIS indispensable prop@deuc vaorous
pmism stabbed and gashed with the radiance Of epgrams,
hde cloud stabbed lightning, of spiritual life FAR
reasonable chastened by the music of
prose- attitude achievement that will help
pear with resignation the burden of century, With