Renan says that he may have been a Sebennyite, and his name Sebent.
Renan describes it with peculiar clearness and succinctness.
Even Renan is sure that "man is most religious in his best moments."
His addresses at the tombs of Zola and Renan are matters of history.
He was always the theologian—toujours sminariste, as they said of Renan.
At times we overhear the honeyed accents, the silky tones of Renan.
Like Renan, the artist in him abhors "the horrible mania of certitude."
Nevertheless he has not one appreciative word to say for Renan.
This is the chief difference between his culture and Renan's.
Renan considers this the most faulty book of the New Testament.
