“German erudition of his time he held in little esteem. “They go to work like galley slaves,” was his charge. “They do not write on a theme because inspired; but the theme comes first, and with assiduous and laborious study they hope to evolve something brilliant out of it.””

—  Oscar Levy

describing the view of Stendhal, p. 84.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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