Always seeking in this or that group of them what he called his generators, intellectual and moral as well as political, he would have described all those which explain the French group.

Unfortunately, here again the elements are wanting which allow one to foreshadow what this final analysis and last construction might have been.

M.Taine did not write in anticipation.

Long before taking the pen in hand he had derived his most significant facts and formed his plan.

He carried them in his brain where they fell into order of themselves.