What then shall we conclude of all these obscurities, if not our own unworthiness?
[THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD;]
OR
THAT NATURE IS NATURALLY CORRUPT.
[PREFACE TO THE FIRST PART.]
To speak of those who have treated of the knowledge of self, of the divisions of Charron which sadden and weary us, of the confusion of Montaigne; that he was aware he had no definite system, and tried to evade the difficulty by leaping from subject to subject; that he sought to be fashionable.