Excerpt from Histoire de la Litterature Francaise au Dix-Huitieme Siecle, Vol. 1
C'est d'une histoire qu'il s'agit ici avant tout, d'une histoire bien plus que d'une serie de notices, de juge ments, d'analyses. Ces deux points de vue cependant se touchent et se confondent. Le dix - septieme et le dix-huitieme siecles sont deja pour nous une antiquite. Les auteurs qui appartiennent a ces deux epoques ne nous semblent guere que les ornements d'une litte rature dont le temps est ecoule; ceux memes qui joui rent de la popularite la moins contestee sont gene ralement peu lus aujourd'hui.
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Alexandre Vinet was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Port-Royal.
As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere. His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.
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