[2] A recent example in Paris is the double statue of the chemists who invented quinine. When will people understand that a discovery of this kind, however honourable, is nevertheless quite incapable of being associated with any plastic idea? The same thing is true of the statues of Chappe and Lavoisier, flanked by instruments of telegraphy and chemistry. These are ridiculous signboards, melancholy compliments translated by a tradesman's art that renders our streets hideous. [3] _Revue des Revues_ (of Paris), June 15th, 1898. [4] I find myself underlining-: it is not Rodin whose voice makes this emphasis. But I am attempting to mark out in this way the formulas which spring up in his conversation, and which, collected together, will give the public an idea of his instinctive synthesis, deduced from life. [5] The word _exalté_ has in this use no precise equivalent in English. "Enthusiast," as the eighteenth century knew the word--that is, with the infusion of a touch of lunacy--conies perhaps nearest.--TRANS. [6] An observation noted by Mlle. Judith Cladel in her curious volume, _Rodin, drawn from life._ (Éditions de La Plume, 1903.) [7] Loïe Fuller has obtained, by means of stuffs not wetted, the effects that the 'École' loves, because her plastic dance is logically derived from nature. IV WORKS SINCE THE "BALZAC"--SMALL WORKS IN MARBLE--PLAN OF THE MONUMENT TO LABOUR--DRAWINGS AND ETCHINGS "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, _Whim._ I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist ... must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must inquire if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."