[288] Cp. Lange, i, 425 (Eng. tr. i, 248–49, note); Bouillier, Hist. de la philos. cartésienne, 1854, i, 40–47, 185–86; Bartholmèss, Jordano Bruno, i, 354–55; Memoir in Garnier ed. of Œuvres Choisies, p. v, also pp. 6, 17, 19, 21. Bossuet pronounced the precautions of Descartes excessive. But cp. Dr. Land’s notes in Spinoza: Four Essays, 1882, p. 55. [↑]
[289] Coll. of Philos. Writings, ed. 1712, pref. p. xi. [↑]
[290] Discours de la Méthode, pties. i, ii, iii, iv (Œuvres Choisies, pp. 8, 10, 11, 22, 24); Meditation I (id. pp. 73–74). [↑]
[291] Full details in Kuno Fischer’s Descartes and his School, Eng. tr. 1890, bk. i, ch. vi; Bouillier, i, chs. xii, xiii. [↑]
[292] Buckle, 1-vol. ed. pp. 337–39; 3-vol. ed. ii, 94, 97. [↑]
[293] Buckle, pp. 327–30; ii, 81. [↑]
[294] Id. p. 330; ii, 82. The process is traced hereinafter. [↑]
[295] Kuno Fischer, Francis Bacon, Eng. tr. 1857, p. 74. [↑]
[296] For an exact summary and criticism of Gassendi’s positions see the masterly monograph of Prof. Brett of Lahore, The Philosophy of Gassendi, 1908—a real contribution to the history of philosophy. [↑]
[297] Cp. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, bk. v, ch. i (McCulloch’s ed. 1839, pp. 364–65). It is told of him, with doubtful authority, that when dying he said: “I know not who brought me into the world, neither do I know what was to do there, nor why I go out of it.” Reflections on the Death of Freethinkers, by Deslandes (Eng. tr. of the Réflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont morts en plaisantant), 1713, p. 105. [↑]