[152] See his essay Des Singularités de la Nature, ch. xii, and his Dissertation sur les changements arrivés dans notre globe. [↑]

[153] Eng. tr. 1750. [↑]

[154] Essay cited, p. 96. The criticism ignores the greater comprehensiveness of Robinet’s survey of nature. [↑]

[155] George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 1707–1788. [↑]

[156] Lyell, Principles of Geology, 12th ed. 1875, i, 57–58. [↑]

[157] Suite de l’Apologie de M. l’Abbé De Prades, 1752, p. 37 sq. [↑]

[158] Dissertatio inauguralis metaphysica de universali naturæ systemate, published at Göttingen as the doctoral thesis of an imaginary Dr. Baumann, 1751. In French, 1753. [↑]

[159] Soury, p. 579. The later speculations of Maupertuis by their extravagance discredited the earlier. [↑]

[160] “Scheinbar bekämpft er Maupertuis desswegen, aber im geheimen stimmt er ihm bei”(Rosenkranz, i, 144). [↑]

[161] It should be noted that by Condillac’s avowal he was much aided by his friend Mdlle. Ferrand. [↑]