The Religion of Israel #249840

As a prose writer, so far as an Englishman is able to judge, M. Loisy carries on that high tradition which through Montaigne, Pascal, Fenelon, Voltaire, Talleyrand, Merimee, Renan has come down, unbroken and unharmed, into our own time, and is being worthily continued by many learned and charming authors. It is not only impossible to estimate the living, but it is invidious to enumerate and class them; still.