text:  He has adored nature he has been a pantheist he has distributed God everywhere to compensate for not having him in his own heart; he has adored Greece and rendered a sort of worship to beauty such as the Greeks conceived it and endeavoured to find an enthusiasm in the arts; he has adored the south and sung the Land of the orange grove because the south is the region of strong faiths and is repugnant to scepticism; he has adored the middle ages because they were ignorant of doubt everywhere he has sought to cure the wound of that insect which had stung his youth