Parisian novelist Emile Souvestre was born in 1806 in Morlaix, the son of a civil engineer. Later, Souvestre studied law, and worked in many professions, from journalist to schoolmaster, before entering upon a life of letters. During his lifetime, his novels were popular and well-received. Souvestre is the author of a very early science fiction novel, "The World as it Will Be" ("Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera"), first-published in 1846. "An "Attic" Philosopher" is the tale, in epistemological form, of one year in the life a young clerk who lives in an attic -- not a...
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Parisian novelist Emile Souvestre was born in 1806 in Morlaix, the son of a civil engineer. Later, Souvestre studied ...
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-... La chute de l'empire romain et les invasions des barbares empecherent, pendant plusieurs siecles, non-seulement les progres, mais l'etude de l'astronomie. Les conquerants arabes et les califes mahometans donnerent les premiers, a une partie du monde, la tranquillite et l'ordre necessaires aux travaux de l'esprit. Leur gouvernement, plein de generosite et de justice pour tous, favorisa dans toutes les directions l'essor de l'intelligence humaine. Les grands princes de la dynastie des Abassides remirent en honneur la philosophie et la science des Grecs. Aristote et Platon furent traduits...
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..". Galilee cependant, tourmente deja des grands secrets de la nature, elevait plus haut son esprit et revait de nouvelles conquetes; revolte par la sterile tyrannie sous laquelle succombait la raison, il osait signaler irrespectueusement les incertitudes du peripatetisme et en attaquer hautement les chimeres: sa libre et judicieuse critique etait traitee de folle arrogance et semblait presque un sacrilege. Les peripateticiens a outrance, se piquant de mepriser les objections, tenaient a honneur de n'y pas repondre; ils ne consentaient pas meme toujours a les ecouter, et le dedain outrageux...
..". Galilee cependant, tourmente deja des grands secrets de la nature, elevait plus haut son esprit et revait de nouvelles conquetes; revolte par la ...
