Note 85 — Chapter III
George Godfrey Berry translation
As a rule it matters little whether the name of the author has or has not been discovered. We read, however, in the Histoire littéraire de la France (xxvi. p. 388): "We have ignored anonymous sermons: writings of this facile character are of no importance for literary history when their authors are unknown." Are they of any more importance when we know the authors' names?