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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

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About Ignace Lepp

Ignace Lepp

Ignace Lepp

Ignace Lepp (original name: John Robert Lepp) (October 26, 1908, Orajõe, Pärnu county, Estonia - May 29, 1966) was a French writer.

The son of a naval captain, he was actually born aboard a ship in the Baltic Sea where he was brought up by his mother together with his brother until he was five years old. At the age of 15, he joined the French communist party after reading Maxim Gorki's "The Mother" , a novel which made a lasting impression on him and led him to abandon individualism as he himself recalls in his autobiography "From Marx to Christ".

Lepp was an atheist and Marxist for many years and occcupied important positions in the communist party with whom he later became very disillusioned. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1941. He wrote many non-fiction books including some about atheism and religion and psychiatry since he was a psychologist and psychoanalyst.

He wrote among other books: The Psychology of Friendship, The Psychology of Loving, The Authentic Existence, The Communication of Existences. He also wrote Teilhard et la foi des homme, about French thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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