About the book: year / "'Following Renan Taine!' Such a comparison of two names in the obituaries of the French press dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased Taine clearly shows that he is not inferior to the famous Renan in importance as a brilliant writer of France, as an artist of words, as a scientific researcher and thinker. The difference between them is that Renan was considered an exponent of the ideal and spiritualistic side of the French mind of the 19th century, and Taine, with no less originality and brilliance, was considered an exponent of its materialistic and skeptical side…»