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Author : <strong>Barrès Maurice</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The war and the spirit of youth</strong><br />
Year : 1917<br />
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Preface. This little book is an attempt to perpetuate the influence of three papers published at intervals in The Atlantic, by a Frenchman, an Englishman, and an American, which, written from divers angles, seek in the dreadful welter of the war some common revelation of spiritual comfort and advance. After three years of carnage, the world faces the Sphinx on a single quest: Is the dreadful agony of these years meaningless and wanton ? Is the sole lesson we may hope to learn some wise man's plan for warding off a new holocaust, some covenant of nations to keep the peace and leave us to make perfect our material welfare? Brutal and brutalizing in every physical sense these years have been; now they threaten to bankrupt the spiritual universe. The three Atlantic writers, one, a questioner by temperament, who to his own amazement has come to see the regeneration of all life in the miracle which the war works in the younger generation; another, by profession a soldier, who went unscathed and unbelieving through the perilous march to Lhassa, only to find as the result of a painful and disabling accident a new and vivid faith born of physical impotence and pain; the third, an American woman, whose adventures are of the spirit, and who has come to her new belief from far distant fields of the imagination: all three unite in confidence that the generation now culminating in manhood is passing through blackness into light brighter than any dawn which we have known. The spirit of the volume is the spirit of youth learning in the Book of Life, and we cannot introduce it better than by quoting the final stanzas of a poem by Laurence Binyon, also published in The Atlantic, which represents the ancient college, nurturer of youth, as she consigns her beautiful young men to a teacher wiser and more majestical than she : " For oh, in youth she lives, not in her age ! Her soul is with the springtime and the young; And she absents her from the learned page, Studious of high stories yet unsung, " More precious to her now than wisdom's book Because her own. Her faith is in those eyes That clear into the gape of hell can look, Putting to proof ancient philosophies, "Such as the virgin Muses would rehearse Beside the silvery, swallow-haunted stream In their gray cloister. But immortal verse Is now exchanged for its immortal theme, " Victory, proud loss, and the enduring mind; Youth that has passed all praises and has won More than renown, being that which faith divined, Reality more radiant than the sun " She gave; she gives. A gift more than all days Of dedicated lore, of storied art! And she resigns her beauty to men's gaze To hide the riches of her bleeding heart." In such a spirit this volume, too, is dedicated. Atlantic Monthly Office, E. S. August 1917. <strong>...</strong></p>Barrès Maurice - The undying spirit of Franceurn:md5:beabbc43ed459d67579a3d354cbf44bf2013-10-25T15:31:00+01:002013-10-25T14:47:01+01:00balderBarrès MauriceFranceHébraïsme <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Barres_Maurice_-_The_undying_spirit_of_France_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Barrès Maurice</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The undying spirit of France</strong><br />
Year : 1917<br />
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Foreword. M. Maurice Barres is a man of such varied interest that he might well be studied from more than one point of view. I shall concentrate my attention, however, particularly to that side of his character shown in his activities as a writer, with a brief glance at those as politician and patriot. As a writer M. Barres stands unquestionably in the front rank of living French authors. His ability for marshalling facts is unexcelled, while his style of expression has seldom been equalled. At times his ideas may not coincide with ours, but we can never fail to recognize the skill and charm with which they are presented. The following pages seem to me to reflect, even in translation, his choice diction and the masterly arrangement of his material. Indeed his gifts of style have been considered remarkable by the best critics of France. M. Paul Desjardins spoke of him in the late twenties as "that youth endowed with remarkable diction," M. Charles Maurras writes of "the music of Barres's prose," while M. Henri Bremond, in what is to me the finest critical study of Barres written up to ten years ago, the preface to "Vingt-cinq Annees de Vie Litteraire," devotes a section to "Barres's rhythm." M. Anatole France, reviewing one of M. Barres's books, says: "His language is supple and at the same time precise; it has wonderful resources." It is interesting to note what Barres himself says on the same subject. "The art of writing must satisfy these two requirements it must be musical and meet the demand for mathematical precision, which exists among the French in every well-regulated soul." As a British journalist and author, the Hon. Maurice Baring, points out, M. Barres's "early books are written in an elaborate style and are often obscure." As he advanced in life and experience, however, his style became less involved and the obscurity disappeared completely, as the readers of the following pages can confirm. In this respect he reverses the course of one of his admirers, Henry James, who began his literary career with a clear style and clear thought and ended with both bathed in ambiguity. Hero-worship also stands out prominently in M. Maurice Barres's writings. To him all "exceptional men" are heroes. He is very catholic in his choice of them, numbering in his earlier books those as varied as Napoleon, Renan and Taine. Later Boulanger and Deroulede became his chief worthies. With the coming of the war M. Barres attains the climax of his reverence for exceptional men, for it is at the shrine of the martyr soldier boys of France that he worships, as we shall see in the pages that follow. Here, as in the matter of style, his taste mellows with age. <strong>...</strong></p>Barrès Maurice - The soul of Franceurn:md5:5042404e1dbc50b4ee2cdaba7504842c2013-10-25T15:28:00+01:002013-10-25T14:47:01+01:00balderBarrès MauriceFranceHébraïsme <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Barres_Maurice_-_The_soul_of_France_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Barrès Maurice</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The soul of France</strong><br />
Year : 1914<br />
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The savage onslaught of the inferior race. From Saint-Die we went on towards Raon- FEtape, passing through La Voivre. This is one of the villages where the Germans killed the parish priest. As they were taking him away, an old woman cried out : " Oh God ! M. le Cure ! " " I am following these gentlemen of my free will," he exclaimed. Perhaps he hoped to propitiate them, or he may have meant that he pardoned them for his death. His crime was that they had just found one of the staff maps in his house. The old woman followed them, and as she kept on lamenting, they seized her. An old man interposed, begging them to release her. Him also they laid hold of, and then marched all three up to a hedge. The priest said : "It is time to tell our beads." He knelt down in the middle with the old people on either side. And the next moment, while they were loading their rifles, he sang the " Libera nos, Domine " for the three of them. The Germans shot him and sent back the other two. That was the old woman's story. From La Voivre I continued my pilgrimage to Raon-l'Etape. I passed by the Col de la Chipotte. It is a delightful woodland gorge, which claims my admiration every time I cross it and go from Charmes to seat myself at the hospitable table of Charles Sadoul at Raonl'Etape. Fighting had been going on here for days. The Germans wanted to force a passage and made a supreme effort to this end. We were content to stand firm. Neither side made much impression at first. It was a knotty situation which was at last unravelled according to our will and for our salvation. But at what a price ! Twelve thousand corpses make this valley and its slopes a place of tears for all time. My friend Baldensperger, a Professor of the Sorbonne, a Vosgian who took part in the defence of his birthplace, wrote me a beautiful letter about this Battle of La Chipotte, the absurd name of a now tragic place. I cannot express my emotion as, chilled by the dreary rain that was falling, I made my way through scenes once so familiar to me, and now no longer recognisable. Their soul is changed. They had been places of peaceful enjoyment to me, evoking images of youth and holiday pleasures. I used to pass through them on my way to visit friends. Now my friends in this region are either fighting or mourning. The plateau Lorrain that I love is for me to-day but a vast expanse of sorrow. We have always striven to ennoble the idea of war, but the Germans have made it foul. <strong>...</strong></p>Barrès Maurice - The faith of Franceurn:md5:dfcea626f1be36d27485649ecd9f06512013-10-25T15:22:00+01:002013-10-25T14:47:01+01:00balderBarrès MauriceBolchevikCommunismFranceJewReligionRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Barres_Maurice_-_The_faith_of_France_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Barrès Maurice</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The faith of France Studies in spiritual differences & unity</strong><br />
Year : 1918<br />
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Foreword. Milton said: "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Here is a book which has in it the precious life-blood of many fearless and devoted spirits - brave boys and steadfast men of France, who have offered themselves in valiant sacrifice to withstand the German idolatry of Thor and Odin which seeks to dominate the world by brute force. I beg you to read this book, my Catholic friend, my Protestant brother, my Hebrew companion, my Socialist comrade. Here is something which is good for all of us. Let us learn to live by the positive of our faith, not by the negative. M. Maurice Barres, the author of this book, - he would call himself the editor, - is one of the most distinguished French men of letters. I if you knew him personally, as I do, you would appreciate the significance of this book. Beginning his career in Hterature as an extreme devotee of "art for art's sake," he became interested in the public affairs of his country and particularly of his own province, Lorraine, and without losing his artistry as a writer, advanced to a patriotic enthusiasm. He also became strongly attached to the spirit and principles of religion, and worked earnestly for the welfare of the Catholic churches in France, especially in the line of an endeavor to save many of the older buildings, which had historic beauty and interest, from falling into neglect and ruin. In this book he shows himself a believer in that faith which makes men willing to lay down their lives in defence of liberty, humanity, and honor. In February, 1917, I was in a little hopital de transit on the front beyond Verdun, where the German shells were breaking around us. The commandant said, '*I want you to meet my spiritual helpers." He introduced me to three chaplains, two Catholic priests and one Protestant pastor, working together in perfect fellowship for the comfort of the wounded and the peace of the dying. That was a union sacree which would have been incredible before this cruel war brought all creeds to the sense of human service. Here, in this book, are the letters and diaries of all sorts and conditions of men of France - Catholics, Protestants, Socialists, Traditionalists, Freethinkers. . They all breathe the same spirit, teach the same lesson : Que Vepreuve de votre foi, plus precieuse que For perissahle (qui cependant est eprouve par le feu) , ait pour resultat la louange, Vhonneur, et la gloire. ''That the proof of your faith, more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried by fire, may be found with praise and glory and honour." (I Peter, 1:7.) This cruel pagan war which Germany has forced upon the world has deepened the sense of true religion in every heart that owns allegiance to a holy, righteous, loving Power above itself. No faith, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Socialist, is worth holding unless it can meet the test of self-sacrifice. That test brightens every faith that is true. I love and commend this book because it reveals the blood-sealed testimony of France to this eternal truth. Henry van Dyke. <strong>...</strong></p>