[48] Ib. p. 130.
[49] Prom, du Sceptique. Œuv., i. 229.
[50] "If there is a God, he is infinitely incomprehensible, since, being without parts or limits, he has no relation to us: we are therefore incapable of knowing what he is, or if he is. That being so, who shall venture to undertake the solution of the question? Not we, at any rate, who have no relation to him." Pensees, II. iii. 1.
[51] P. 182.
[52] P. 223.
[53] Barbazan's Fabliaux et Contes, iii. 409 (ed. 1808). The learned Barbazan's first edition was published in 1756, and so Diderot may well have heard some of the contents of the work then in progress.
[54] Naigeon.
[55] In my Rousseau, p. 243 (new ed.)
[56] Voltaire, p. 149 (new ed., Globe 8vo).
[57] Joubert.