"Fruitfulness" by Emile Zola is the first of a series of four works in which M. Zola proposes to embody what he considers to be the four cardinal principles of human life.
"Fruitfulness," says M. Zola, "creates the home. Thence springs the city. From the idea of citizenship comes that of the fatherland; and love of country, in minds fed by science, leads to the conception of a wider and vaster fatherland, comprising all the peoples of the earth. Of these three stages in the progress of mankind, the fourth still remains to be attained. I have thought then of writing, as it were, a poem in four volumes, in fou chants, in which I shall endeavor to sum up the philosophy of all my work.
- ISBN13 9781105678080
- Publish Date 16 April 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English