“What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.” RealCareValuesIndividualEventsCivilizationDetailsNobleCarrieIndifferent Book:Cinq Mars Source: Cinq Mars
“The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.” MenHumansHeartPhilosophyWholeAgeHumanityLiteratureIndividualSocialDestinyStudyProgressExampleMovementSourceNeededDramaPureUniversalEternityEmbraceFranceAnalysisExplorationInvestigationHuman HeartProvincesSocial Progress Book:Cinq Mars Source: Cinq Mars
“France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.” MenHumanityIndividualDestinyExampleDramaFrance Book:Cinq Mars Source: Cinq Mars
