[151] “Is embarrassed” in the first edition. [↑]
[152] Des ouvrages de l’esprit, near end. § 65 in ed. Walckenaer, p. 176. [↑]
[153] M. Le Vassor, De la véritable religion, 1688, préf. Le Vassor speaks in the same preface of “this multitude of libertins and of unbelievers which now terrifies us.” His book seeks to vindicate the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, inspiration, prophecies, and miracles, against Spinoza, Le Clerc, and others. [↑]
[154] Cp. Huet, Huetiana, § 1. [↑]
[155] The question is discussed in the author’s Buckle and his Critics, pp. 324–42, and ed. of Buckle’s Introduction. Buckle’s view, however, was held by Huet, Huetiana, § 73. [↑]
[156] Cp. Perrens, pp. 310–14. [↑]
[157] Letter of the Duchesse d’Orléans, cited by Rocquain, L’Esprit révolutionnaire avant la révolution, 1878, p. 3, note. [↑]