Desnoiresterres (Gustave le Brisoys), Frenchman of letters, b. Bayeux, 20 June, 1817, author of Epicurienes et Lettres XVII. and XVIII. Siècles, 1881, and Voltaire et la Société Française au XVIII. Siècle, an important work in eight vols.
* Desraimes (Maria), b. 15 Aug. 1835.
Diogenes (Apolloinates), a Cretan, natural philosopher, who lived in the fifth century B.C. He is supposed to have got into trouble at Athens through his philosophical opinions being considered dangerous to the State. He held that nothing was produced from nothing or reduced to nothing; that the earth was round and had received its shape from whirling. He made no distinction between mind and matter.
Donius (Augustinus), a Materialist, referred to by Bacon. His work, De Natura Dominis, in two books, 1581, refers the power of the spirit, to motion. The title of his second book is “Omnes operationes spiritus esse motum et semum.”
Dosamantes (Jesus Ceballos), Mexican philosopher; author of works on Absolute Perfection, Mexico, 1888, and Modern Pharisees and Sadducees (mystics and materialists), ’89.
Druskowitz (Helene), Dr., b. Vienna, 2 May, 1858. Miss Druskowitz is Doctor of philosophy at Dresden, and has written a life of Shelley, Berlin, ’84; a little book on Freewill, and The New Doctrines, ’83.
Dufay (Henri), author of La Legende du Christ, 1880.
Duller (Eduard), German poet and historian, b. Vienna, 18 Nov. 1809. He wrote a History of the Jesuits (Leipsic, ’40) and The Men of the People (Frankfort, ’47–’50). Died at Wiesbaden, 24 July, 1853.
* Du Marsais (César Chesneau). He edited Mirabaud’s anonymous work on The World and its Antiquity and The Soul and its Immortality, Londres, 1751.
* Fellowes (R.) Graduated B.A. at Oxford 1796, M.A. 1801. Died 6 Feb. 1847.