Chapter XVII

(Cotton's translation.) This is "crystallisation"--Stendhal could not explain it better.

We cannot here forgo quoting one more passage from Montaigne, which bears distinctly upon other important views of Stendhal. "I say that Males and Females are cast in the same Mould and that, Education and Usage excepted, the Difference is not great.... It is much more easy to accuse one Sex than to excuse the other. 'Tis according to the Proverb--'Ill may Vice correct Sin.'" (Bk. Ill, Chap. V).

[19] "In a literary sense."

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Author's Preface. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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