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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II The Renascence Of National Energy. 1885-1914. The generation which had come to maturity in the relatively care-free and materialistic atmosphere of the Second Empire, did not feel at once the whole moral significance of the Defeat of 1870. It was not until about 1880 that the psychological frame of mind which has been called the ideology of the Defeat was generally observed. The first manifestation of this depression was a sort of exasperated idealism, which exalted pure intelligence as opposed to physical force; it was a form of revenge taken by humiliated pride. Men proclaimed that the refined and idealistic races were by these very qualities condemned to destruction. Pessimism, pride of the intelligence, scorn of the active life, acceptance of a near and irremediable fall, inability to make a choice; such were the ideas which combined to form the attitude of mind described as dilettantism. Because he tries to understand and enjoy everything, without attaching himself to any one thing, the dilettante considers himself superior to the believer. He is profoundly impregnated with a sense of the relativity of all truth, and this attitude leads directly to impotence, and through it to pessimism and even to despair. The habitual mode of self expression of the dilettante is irony, which is the proud attempt of a conquered intellectualism to show that it scorns the things for whose possession it is incapable of making an effort. This irony the Frenchmen of the Defeat directed against themselves, each other and their past. One of the first to protest against the self-deprecation of his compatriots, Fustel de Coulanges, compares the tendency to a mania for suicide.' The mortal fatigue, the gloomy perception of the vanity ofall effort so prevalent in the eighties, is, in the op...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217999786
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217999786
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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