FOOTNOTES:
[1] De Augment. Scient., cap. 1., lib. iii.
[2] See the Filum Labyrinthi, and the Essay on Death particularly.
[3] Macbeth, act iii. scene 2.
[4] A misquotation of Mark iv. 25.—Ed.
[5] A misquotation of Ecclesiastes vii. 2.—Ed.
[6] Although Rousseau has been thus classed, he was essentially a poet. The others, even Voltaire, were mere reasoners. [Author’s note.]
[7] Paradise Lost, Book I. l, 254-5.
