But he preferred to leave that style of argument to those who deem it unanswerable, universal and all-powerful.

As for himself, he prefers reasons to authorities; he has always cared more for arms than for coats-of-arms.
_October_, 1827.
[Footnote A: Victor Hugo (1802-1883) the chief of the romantic school in France, issued in the Preface to "Cromwell" the manifesto of the movement.

Poet, dramatist, and novelist, Hugo remained through a long life the most conspicuous man of letters in France; and in the document here printed he laid down the principles which revolutionized the literary world of his time.].