GABRIEL TARDE
Cloudesley Brereton translation
(1843-1904)
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF FRANCE
TRANSLATED BY CLOUDESLEY BRERETON M.A., L. ÈS L.
WITH A PREFACE BY H.G. WELLS
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
1905
The whole of Tarde is in this little book.
He has put into it along with a charming fancy his genialness and depth of spirit, his ideas on the influence of art and the importance of love, in an exceptional social milieu.
This agreeable day-dream is vigorously thought out. On reading it we fancy we are again seeing and hearing Tarde. In order to indulge in a repetition of the illusion, a pious friendship has desired to clothe this fascinating work in an appropriate dress.
A.L.
CONTENTS
DEDICATION PREFACE By H.G. WELLS INTRODUCTORY I. PROSPERITY II. THE CATASTROPHE III. THE STRUGGLE IV. SAVED V. REGENERATION VI. LOVE VII. THE ÆSTHETIC LIFE NOTE ON TARDE By JOSEPH MANCHON