91
Baudelaire, «Edgar Poe: sa vie et ses œuvres».
92
«In brief, I may say that we have had somewhat too much of "the gospel of work". It is time to preach the gospel of relaxation»
(Herbert Spencer, in a speeeh delivered on the occasion of a complimentary dinner in New York on 9 November 1882, in «The Americans», Essays: scientific, political and speculative, London, 1901, III, 484).
93
Pensées, article XXI, ii, and article XXII, i.
94
Paul Bourget.
95
«La pratique constante des sciences naturelles n'avait pas enlevé au marquis Norbert ce goût des idées générales, sans lequel la tête mieux aprovisionée (sic) de faits ressemble à une cheminée garnie de bois, mais qu'on a négligé d'allumer. Bourget»
; note in the Archivo Rodó, armario 2, 3A 7, 20559. The original source is unknown. It is clear, however, that Rodó has inverted totally the meaning of the French.
96
Histoire de la littérature anglaise (8th ed. Paris, 1892), IV, 426-77 («Le passé et le présent»).
97
Paul Bourget, Outre-mer, II, 195.
98
Ibid.
99
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842); Renan's study of him may have been known to Rodó.
100
A collection of press articles published by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in defence of the Federal Constitution proposed by the Federal Convention of 1778.