[208] xix. 181.
[209] xix. 81.
[210] xix. 149.
[211] xix. 90.
[212] xix. 163, 164.
[213] Sept. 20, 1765; xix. 179-187.
[214] xviii. 476, 478.
[215] xviii. 479. Comte writes more seriously somewhat in the same sense: "For thirty centuries the priestly castes of China, and still more of India, have been watching our Western transition; to them it must appear mere agitation, as puerile as it is tempestuous, with nothing to harmonise its different phases but their common inroad upon unity." Positive Polity, iv. 11 (English Translation)
[216] xix. 233.
[217] Voltaire's Satire on the Economists.