[298] For a good account of Gassendi and his group (founded on Lange, § iii, ch. i) see Soury, Bréviaire de l’hist. de matérialisme, ptie. iii, ch. ii. [↑]
[299] Voltaire, Éléments de philos. de Newton, ch. ii; Lange, i, 232 (Eng. tr. i, 267) and 269. [↑]
[300] Bayle, art. Pomponace, Notes F. and G. The complaint was made by Arnauld, who with the rest of the Jansenists was substantially a Cartesian. [↑]
[301] See it in Garnier’s ed. of Descartes’s Œuvres Choisies, p. 145. [↑]
[303] Apparently just because the Jansenists adopted Descartes and opposed Gassendi. But Gassendi is extremely guarded in all his statements, save, indeed, in his objections to the Méditations of Descartes. [↑]
[304] See Soury, pp. 397–98, as to a water-drinking “debauch” of Gassendi and his friends. [↑]
[305] Rambaud, as cited, p. 154. [↑]
[307] Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, ed. Didot, p. 366. “On ne l’eût pas osé sous Henri IV et sous Louis XIII,” adds Voltaire. Cp. Michelet, La Sorcière, éd. Séailles, 1903, p. 302. [↑]