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"Un ecrivain doit se regarder comme un instituteur des hommes. " -- BONALD.
Balzac, to borrow a Hindu expression, was "an artificer who built like a giant and finished like a jeweler. " The groundwork of the "Comedie Humaine" was grandly conceived and admirably executed; and though a few of the balconies of its superb superstructure are incomplete, yet as, happily, masterpieces are ever eternally young, it shows no signs of decay, and there is little danger of its falling in ruins.