Lanterna Rally

Author: Ernest Renan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780267865468

Excerpt from Renan's Letters From the Holy Land; The Correspondence of Ernest Renan With M. Berthelot While Gathering Material in Italy and the Orient for the Life of Jesus; Tr: By Lorenzo O'rourke Three years after the spirit of the modern Cmsar had taken flight from St. Helena, there was born on the bleak coasts of Brittany, of a family as obscure as the Corsican's own, a child who was destined to win for France another empire in the world of intellect, the frontiers of which were to be pushed to the remot est boundaries of earth. It is interesting to think that, about the time the imperial glory of France, incarnate in Napoleon, was upon its deathbed, there was being cradled among lowly Bretons an intelligence which in the fulness of time, by its originality, versatility, and indomitable energy, would attain a rival sovereignty in the realm of ideas - inimitable like the French Alexander's, and sighing for new worlds to conquer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.