Japanese Impressions, With a Note on Confucius: Translated From the French by Frances Rumsey; With a Pref, by Anatole France (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Couchoud, Paul Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330609557 ISBN 13: 9781330609552

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from Japanese Impressions, With a Note on Confucius: Translated From the French by Frances Rumsey; With a Pref, by Anatole France

M. Couchoud, from the moment he saw Japan, loved it not only for its cleverness, and its astound ing promptitude in borrowing from Europeans weapons with which to combat them, but for its fine love of beauty, its courtesy, its exquisite art of living and for a sentiment for nature of an unequalled penetration. Were it not that his curiosity is universal and that he is possessed by a need to see and comprehend everything, he would, like Lafcadio Hearn, have adopted a Japanese life and passed the remainder of his days in a joint appreciation, with this people so dedicated to the love of landscape, of the festivals of the first snow and the bursting of the cherry trees into flower.

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Excerpt from Japanese Impressions, With a Note on Confucius: Translated From the French by Frances Rumsey; With a Pref, by Anatole France

The French author whom I have the honour to present to this English public - considered as it is by H.Taine to be the most serious, the most reserved and the most attentive in the world - is worthy, I am certain, to occupy the leisure of so estimable a collective sensibility. M.Paul-Louis Couchoud, former scholar of the Ecole Normale, professor of philosophy and doctor of medicine, published in 1902, while still very young, a book which already disclosed the centre of attraction of a mind ceaselessly stirred by an ardent curiosity, but which revolves about a central point in that it is harmonious and fundamentally informed. This book is a study on Spinoza (published by Alcan) conceived in an original manner. In his belief that the doctrine of a philosopher is an historic event, the author has attached the work of the excommunicated Jew of Amsterdam to those exterior circumstances which can explain it; he acquaints us with the surroundings in which Spinoza lived and unfolds an animated and inspired series of pictures. Thus the vocation of M.Couchoud was manifest at an early hour.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1330609557
• ISBN 13: 9781330609552
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194