[261] Cours, IV, 290-7.
[262] Cours, IV, 182-6.
[263] Pol. pos., II, 332-3.
[264] Cours, V, 366.
[265] Cours, IV, 185-7.
[266] This referred in the Author’s mind to the famous quarrel in French literature between the admirers of ancient poetry like Boileau, who declared it to be superior to modern poetry, and their opponents like Perrault and Fontenelle, who took the contrary view.
[267] Cours, IV, 257-9.
[268] Pol. pos., I, 60-3.
[269] Cours, IV, 188.
[270] Pol. Pos., IV, Appendice, p. 199.