m the native air of renewed
humanity."

Thus, to him, this threefold literature included all the thoughts of
man. Not a book could be written, in his opinion, of which the subject
might not there be discerned in its germ. This view shows how learnedly
he had pursued his early studies of the Bible, and how far they had led
him. Hovering, as it were, over the heads of society, and knowing it
solely from books, he could judge it coldly.

"The law," said he, "never puts a check on the enterprises of the rich
and great, but crushes the poor, who, on the contrary, need protection."

His kind heart did not therefore allow him to sympathize in political
ideas; his system led rather to the passive obedience of which Jesus
set the example. During the last hours of my life at Vendome, Louis
had ceased to feel the spur to glory; he had, in a way, had an abstract
enjoyment of fame; and having opened it, as the ancient priests of
sacrifice sought to read the future in the hearts of men, he had found
nothing in the entrails of his chimera. Scorning a sentiment so wholly
personal: "Glory," said he, "is but beatified egoism."

Here, perhaps, before taking leave of this exceptional boyhood, I may
pronounce judgment on it by a rapid glance.

A short time before our separation, Lambert said to me:

"Apart from the general laws which I have formulated--and this, perhaps,
will be my glory--laws which must be those of the human organism, the
life of man is Movement determined in each individual by the pressure of
some inscrutable influence--by the brain, the heart, or the sinews. All
the innumerable modes of human existence result from the proportions in
which these three generating forces are more or less intimately combined
with the substances they assimilate in the environment they live in."

He stopped short, struck his forehead, and exclaimed: "How strange!
In every great man whose portrait I have remarked, the neck is short.
Perhaps nature requires that in them the heart should be nearer to the
brain!"

Then he went on:

"From that, a sum-total of action takes its rise which constitutes
social life. The man of sinew contributes action or strength; the man
of brain, genius; the man of heart, faith. But," he added sadly, "faith
sees only the clouds of the sanctuary; the Angel alone has light."

So, according to his own definitions, Lambert was all brain and all
heart. It seems to me that his intellectual life was divided into t