Dedication
TO
MONSIEUR ÉMILE BOUTROUX
(of the Institute of France)
Permit me to offer you this book as a mark of admiration and gratitude. Often of an evening, in the sober hour of twilight, hearing you comment upon a page of Plato or a line of Goethe, or explain to me with unfailing geniality and marvellous lucidity the troubles of the present day, I have gained a fuller understanding of the magnificent radiance of the French genius; and always, on leaving you, I have found pleasure in repeating the thought of Emerson, of the Emerson whom you love, concerning the utility of great men: “They make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.”
F. G. C.
PARIS, November, 1911.