Note 3 — V. THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN FRANCE (continued 9)

We feel how genuinely Romantic, how profoundly characteristic of the period, such a little inspiration as this is, when we come upon the very same thought in one of George Sand's Lettres d'un Voyageur (January, 1835): "Jésus, en souffrant le martyre, a donné un grand exemple de suicide." It is curious that the idea never occurred to Novalis.