[162] Cp. Réthoré, Condillac, ou l’empirisme et le rationalisme, 1864, ch. i. [↑]
[163] Lange, ii, 27, 29; Soury, pp. 603–44. [↑]
[164] Soury, pp. 596–600; Lange, ii, 27. [↑]
[165] Oddly enough he became ultimately press censor! He lived till 1820, dying at Rennes at the age of 85. [↑]
[166] This may best be translated Treatise on the Mind. The English translation of 1759 (rep. 1807) is entitled De l’Esprit: or, Essays on the Mind, etc. [↑]
[167] Correspondance, ii, 262. [↑]
[170] At the time the pietists declared that Diderot had collaborated in De l’Esprit. This was denied by Grimm, who affirmed that Diderot and Helvétius were little acquainted, and rarely met; but his Secretary, Meister, wrote in 1786 that the finest pages in the book were Diderot’s. Id. p. 294, note. In his sketch À la mémoire de Diderot (1786, app. to Naigeon’s Mémoires, 1821, p. 425, note), Meister speaks of a number of “belles pages,” but does not particularize. [↑]