Crossword-Solution: MILIEUX 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

They have failed, like all the _juste-milieux_ of the world, and are laughed at for their eclecticism.

Mais il se peut que la vie se produise aussi dans des milieux différents, à des températures très hautes ou très basses, sous des formes inconcevables.

Taine claims more than he should for his "Thèorie des Milieux," or influence of surroundings; or that Hutchinson has drawn the hereditary and pedigreeal fatherhood of disease too finely; it must also be admitted that the solid, tangible truths upon which these authors have founded their premises are plainly visible to the most skeptical; the architectural details of the superstructure may be defective, but the foundation is permanent.

Wonderful must it clearly have been still to fed amid laxities and vaguenesses such a difference of _milieux_ and, as they used to say, of atmospheres.

But the _Astrée_ might almost be called a French prose _Faerie Queene_, allowing for the difference of the two nations, languages, vehicles, and _milieux_ generally, in its representation of the above-mentioned cavalier-philosophic _ethos_--a thing never so well realised in France as in England or in Spain, but of which Honoré d'Urfé, from many traits in life and book, seems to have been a real example, and which certainly vindicates its place in history and literature.