[33] Éd. Firmin-Didot, ii, 469. [↑]
[34] Miss Lowndes, p. 145. Cp. Champion, Introd. aux Essais de Montaigne, 1900. [↑]
[35] Essais, liv. ii, ch. xii; liv. iii, ch. v. Ed. cited, i, 65; ii, 309. [↑]
[36] For a view of Montaigne’s development see M. Champion’s excellent Introduction—a work indispensable to a full understanding of the Essais. [↑]
[38] Cp. the Essais, liv. iii, ch. i (ed. cited, ii, 208). Owen gives a somewhat misleading idea of the passage (French Skeptics, p. 486). [↑]
[39] Miss Lowndes, Michel de Montaigne, p. 131. Cp. Owen, p. 414. [↑]
[40] He was consistent enough to doubt the new cosmology of Copernicus (Essais, as cited, i, 615); and he even made a rather childish attack on the reform of the Calendar (liv. iii, chs. x, xi); but he was a keen and convinced critic of the prevailing abuses in law and education. Owen’s discussion of his opinions is illuminating; but that of Champion makes a still more searching analysis as regards the conflicting tendencies in Montaigne. [↑]