[175] Corr. Œuv. lxxv. p. 249.
[176] 1 It was to the last-named book, one may suppose, that Voltaire referred, when he asked how it was that Locke, after having so profoundly traced the development of the human understanding, could so degrade his own understanding in another work. (Diet Phil. s.v. Platon. (Œuv. lvii. p. 369.)
[177] 2 See Collins’s Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing, prefixed to the Grounds and Reasons of Christianity.
[178] Corr. 1768. Œuv. lxx. p. 140.
[179] The reader will find an account of them in M. Lanfrey’s L’Eglise et les Philosophes du 18ième Siècle, pp. 131-135.
[180] Corr. (Euv. lxvi. p. 100.
[181] For the composition of this body see Voltaire’s Histoire du Parlement de Paris. Œuv. xxxiv. Or in Martin s Hist, de France, iv. 295; xii. 280; and xii. 53.
[182] Sikcle de Louis xv. c. 36. Œuvres, xxix. p. 3.
[183] Corr. Œuv. lxxv. p. 145.
[184] Corr. Œuvres, lxvii. p. 166.