The source that originally brought pyreneism to existence justified itself in a scientific exploration where usefulness superseded feelings. But at time passed, as the knowledge on Pyrenees increased, the human overwhelmed by the soul it lends to these mountains will progressively, with an all-Lamartinian sense of poetry, animate the last stage of the land and transform it into an ecumene. In this, he created his Pyrenees. He measures its summits, then in turn the summits exalt beauty in Man, rapture, contemplation (see One hundred years of mountain painting).