See also M. Lachelier, De l’Induction.
[167] This hypothesis is identical with that of monism.
[168] Wundt, Psychologie, vol. ii.
[169] See M. Ravaisson, La Métaphysique d’Aristote, vol. ii., and Rapport sur la Philosophie en France.
[170] Association or grouping is the general law of organic and inorganic existence. Society, properly so called, is only a particular case, is only the most complex instance, of this universal law.... A consciousness is rather a We than an I. It is capable of union with other consciousnesses and of forming, in conjunction with them, a more comprehensive and more durable consciousness, from which it receives and to which it communicates thought, as a star both borrows and communicates motion in the system to which it belongs. (Espinas, Des Sociétés animales, 128. See also M. Fouillée, La Science sociale contemporaine, l. iii.)
The footnotes have been renumbered and gathered at the end of this book. Minor errors in spacing, capitalization etc. have been corrected without note. Missing accents in the sidenotes have been added to be consistent with the main text. Also the following changes have been made, on page
5 “as” added (just as he might offend a fellow-man)
18 “adverversaries” changed to “adversaries” (the mistake of despising their adversaries)
45 “puisant” changed to “puissant” (what is puissant and powerful)
48 footnote anchor added (the phenomena of the external world.[19])
64 “unaquainted” changed to “unacquainted” (they are unacquainted with the external world)
157 “terrestial” changed to “terrestrial” (the celestial or terrestrial phenomena which)
163 “neigbours” changed to “neighbours” (their more innocent neighbours)
167 “Protestanism” changed to “Protestantism” (Inconsequence of liberal Protestantism)
191 “abhorence” changed to “abhorrence” (theory of nature’s abhorrence)
207 “considerble” changed to “considerable” (a considerable hold on human life)
215 “mimimize” changed to “minimize” (in order to minimize the necessity)
241 “Watt” changed to “Wat” (Pastoureaux and Jacques in France and Wat Tyler in England)
298 “sentitiment” changed to “sentiment” (dominated not by reason but by sentiment)
304 “cherubin” changed to “chérubin” (l’interrogation anxieuse de chérubin)
304 “Songs” changed to “Song” (reading the Song of Songs)
335 “étre” changed to “être” (être à la charge de ses enfants)
337 “corveé” changed to “corvée” (the last vestige of the corvée)
337 “celibat” changed to “célibat” (sur le célibat en France)
347 “anxiom” changed to “axiom” (If there is one axiom that fathers ought to)
389 “esthetique” changed to “esthétique” (Problèmes de l’esthétique contemporaine)
399 “Budhism” changed to “Buddhism” (Buddhism and Christianity have headed)
453 “asscribes” changed to “ascribes” (unity that it ascribes to the world)
477 “Hydrogene” changed to “Hydrogen” (hypothesis—Hydrogen—Necessity of), also in the table of contents
533 “Pyschologically” changed to “Psychologically” (Psychologically and metaphysically considered)
542 “Reconcilation” changed to “Reconciliation” (Reconciliation between determinism and indeterminism)
542 “Socialty” changed to “Sociality” (Sociality, and self- preservation)
462 “Fréré” changed to “Féré” (One may say, with M. Féré, that people in good)
539 “Comtes” changed to “Comte” (Comte, A., 109)
539 “Feurbach” changed to “Feuerbach” (by Schleiermacher and Feuerbach)
541 “Lavelaye” changed to “Laveleye” (Lavelaye, M. de, 249, 252, 284)
541 “ascetism” changed to “asceticism” (and asceticism, 211)
541 “Panthelism, 55-453” changed to “Pantheism, 452” and “Panthelism, 55”
541 “Parve” changed to “Parvé” (Parvé, M. Steyn, 283)
and in footnote number
36 “Epicure” changed to “Épicure” (See the author’s Morale d’Épicure)
40 “Societe” changed to “Société” (Actes de la Société helvét. des sc. nat.)
44 “a’une” changed to “d’une” (Esquisse d’une morale)
78 “embarassment” changed to “embarrassment” (remarks in the former a progressive financial embarrassment)
85 “sécondaire” changed to “secondaire” (l’instruction primaire, secondaire et supérieure)
87 “Lenornant” changed to “Lenormant” (M. Lenormant undertook to publish a translation)
139 “Fréré” changed to “Féré” (M. Ch. Féré, Revue philosophique, July, 1886.).
Otherwise the original was preserved, including inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation, also possible errors in foreign languages. No italics were used in the sidenotes, this has not been changed. The index has not been checked for errors in alphabetization or pagenumbers. Additional: M. Janet, mentioned in footnote [164] is probably Paul Janet, “La Morale”.