[143] Lange’s Gesch. d. Materialismus, i. 369; where the author shows how entirely Voltaire failed to touch Holbach’s position as to the meaning of Order in the universe.
[144] Œuv., v. 296, 303, etc.
[145] Nouvelle Héloise, IV. xii.
[146] Nouvelle Héloise, V. v.
[147] See Lange, i. 85.
[148] Syst. de la Nat., I. xvi.
[149] Syst. de la Nat., I. xiv., xvi., etc. etc.
[150] Dict. Phil., s. v. Dieu, § 4.
[151] Holbach confesses his obligation on this head to Toland’s Letters to Serena (1704).
[152] Almost the very words of this passage are to be found in Diderot. See above, vol. i. p. 237.