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OCR: Yan Gagh's need for res lism wAs driving force his life and work He shared with Verme and Flammarion their disillusionment with organizec religion and their search for scientific surrogate Like therm, he wanted TE reconstitute saciety along more rational l lines; indeed all three belonged t the moderate left were pacifists, sympathetic to socialism, and had horror violent revolution Their lave af stable ordered environment reveals itself in their impassioned involvement with geography. All three loved the bird' s-eve view of the landscape and had a keen interest in maps Flammarion designed atlases and mapped aut the surfaces of the moon and Mars. Verne religiously charted the fictitious journeys f all his characters and even published multi-volumed work ua geagra- phy. In the case of Van G ...