"Saint-simonianism" Quotes from Famous Books
... Sainte-Beuve published it, he had run up, or down, a rather curious gamut of creeds and crazes. He had been a fervent Romantic. He had (for whatever mixture of reasons need not be entered into here) exchanged this first faith, wholly or partially, for that singular unfaith of Saint-Simonianism, which, if we had not seen other things like it since and at the present day, would seem incredible as even a hallucination of good wits. He had left this again to endeavour to be a disciple of Lamennais, and had, not surprisingly, failed. He was now to set himself ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |