le caractère dominant, ' the chief feature

98. cette réserve môme, * this very reserve.' * This same reserve ' would be cette même réserve,

et celui-ci . . . généial, 'and this one' (this man) *merely carried this gênerai characteristic to excess.* N.B. Ne faire que—'' to do nothing but.*

loi. Aussi Je n*estime pas ... de nous, ' Therefore I hardly think that inany could recognise their own selves under the wild colours in which we are paiuted.' Aussi at the head of a sentence and g^eftera/ly foWoyfed by an inversion=* therefore.' Puissent: the subjunctive is generally put in the sentence depending upon a négative verb. Effaré, lit. * startled.'

104-7. c'est pour ... en soi, * it is, çloubtless, on that account that each, far from displaying in his featuies and language . . ., strives to coop up . . .* lit. * shut up within himself.' Soi used to translate *himself' after an impersonal pronoun, like chacun, on,

109. élans, * impulses.* Metarhor from élan, *a spring* (a run back in order to jump). Cl. s'élancer— * to rush.*

Je ne pense point que ... masqué, ' I do not think that civilisation has unstrung (or * unnerved *) — I see it has thrown a mask over — ail things.' The autbor means that he

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does not think, as many do, that civilisation has made us effeminate, but that it has taught us to disguise our thoughts and cloak our feelings.