History of art . LisiEux. House of the xv Century mystic passion which renders the human soul heroicand which makes it possible that, through a singleman and at a single moment, there may be concen-trated and epitomized within the human soul all thepowers of life, which, at that particular moment,define for our eyes the course of destiny and of theworld. Hugo puffs up his power with programs andsermons. Well then! the cathedral has everything welove in Hugo or Pascal; everything of ourselves thatwe find in Rabelais, Molière, or La Fontaine; every-thing that, in Montaigne, rises above time and
History of art . LisiEux. House of the xv Century mystic passion which renders the human soul heroicand which makes it possible that, through a singleman and at a single moment, there may be concen-trated and epitomized within the human soul all thepowers of life, which, at that particular moment,define for our eyes the course of destiny and of theworld. Hugo puffs up his power with programs andsermons. Well then! the cathedral has everything welove in Hugo or Pascal; everything of ourselves thatwe find in Rabelais, Molière, or La Fontaine; every-thing that, in Montaigne, rises above time and place. 342 MEDIiEVAL ART But by its vaults and by its towers it elevates all thisin so lyrical a passion, that it lifts the French crowdup to the supreme conceptions which the greatest ofour artists have almost never French hero is the
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