Renan is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 40 anagrams from letters in Renan (aennr).
Nevertheless he has not one appreciative word to say for Renan.
This is the chief difference between his culture and Renan's.
Renan describes it with peculiar clearness and succinctness.
His addresses at the tombs of Zola and Renan are matters of history.
Even Renan is sure that "man is most religious in his best moments."
Like Renan, the artist in him abhors "the horrible mania of certitude."
At times we overhear the honeyed accents, the silky tones of Renan.
Renan considers this the most faulty book of the New Testament.
He was always the theologian—toujours sminariste, as they said of Renan.
Renan says that he may have been a Sebennyite, and his name Sebent.