[35] Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
[36] Montaigne says, in his author’s address to the reader:—
“Ie veulx qu’on m’y veoye en ma façon simple, naturelle et ordinaire, sans estude et artifice; car c’est moi que je peinds.” He says again elsewhere: “Ie n’ay pas plus faict mon livre, que mon livre m’a faict; livre consubstantiel à son aucteur, d’une occupation propre, membre de ma vie, non d’une occupation et fin tierce et estrangiere, comme touts aultres livres.” (Livre ii. ch. xviii.)
[37] Introduction to the Encyclopædia.
[38] Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
[39] Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
[40] No. 267.
[41] Essays.
[42] He refers to the following passage in the Gospel of St. John, xviii. 38: “Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.”
[43] He probably refers to the “New Academy,” a sect of Greek philosophers, one of whose moot questions was, “What is truth?” Upon which they came to the unsatisfactory conclusion, that mankind has no criterion by which to form a judgment.