[332] Voltaire to Rousseau. Aug. 30, 1755.
[333] Corr., i. 237. Sept. 10, 1755.
[334] La Loi Naturelle.
[335] In 1754 the Berlin Academy proposed for a prize essay, An Examination of Pope's System, and Lessing the next year wrote a pamphlet to show that Pope had no system, but only a patchwork. See Mr. Pattison's Introduction to Pope's Essay on Man, p. 12. Sime's Lessing, i. 128.
[336] Conf. ix. 276.
[337] Corr., i. 289-316. Aug. 18, 1756.
[338] Joseph De Maistre put all this much more acutely; Soirées, iv.
[339] Madame d'Epinay, Mém., i. 380.
[340] Conf., ix. 277. Also Corr., iii. 326. March 11, 1764. Tronchin's long letter, to which Rousseau refers in this passage, is given in M. Streckeisen-Moultou's collection, i. 323, and is interesting to people who care to know how Voltaire looked to a doctor who saw him closely.
[341] Corr., ii. 132. June 17, 1760. Also Conf., x. 91.