Finally, we find in the physical and physiological speculations which M.Lamennais deduces from his trinitarian cosmogony grave errors, the preconceived design of accommodating facts to theory, and the substitution in almost every case of hypothesis for reality.

The third volume on industry and art is the most interesting to read, and the best.

It is true that M.Lamennais can boast of nothing but his style.

As a philosopher, he has added not a single idea to those which existed before him.
Why, then, this excessive mediocrity of M.Lamennais considered as a thinker, a mediocrity which disclosed itself at the time of the publication of the "Essai sur l'Indifference!"?
It is because (remember this well, proletaires!) Nature makes no man truly complete, and because the development of certain faculties almost always excludes an equal development of the opposite faculties; it is because M.Lamennais is preeminently a poet, a man of feeling and sentiment.

Look at his style,--exuberant, sonorous, picturesque, vehement, full of exaggeration and invective,--and hold it for certain that no man possessed of such a style was ever a true metaphysician.