[427] In Nos. 27, 28, and 29 of the Year X. (1802) of the Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique. The articles were subsequently collected into a pamphlet.—B.
[428] It was published on the 24th of Germinal Year X. (14 April 1802), by Migneret, 28, rue du Sépulcre, Faubourg Saint-Germain and Le Normant, 43, rue des Prêtres-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, in five volumes 8vo (the fifth volume consisting entirely of notes and elucidations), with the title, Génie du Christianisme, ou Beautés de la religion chrétienne, by François Auguste Chateaubriand. The first page of each volume bore the following epigraph, suppressed in the later editions:
"Chose admirable! la religion chrétienne, qui ne semble avoir d'objet que la félicité de l'autre vie, fait encore notre bonheur dans celle-ci."
Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois, XXIV., iii.—B.
[429] Baruch, or Benedict, Spinoza (1632-1677), the Portuguese-Jewish philosopher of Amsterdam. His system of pantheism is set forth in his Ethica and other works.—T.
[430] Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was born a Protestant, became a Catholic, and then a professional sceptic. His reputation rests upon his famous Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), with which he paved the way for Voltaire and his friends.—T.
[431] Claude Henri Comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) was the founder of a sect, based upon more or less Socialistic principles, extinguished by ridicule, and finally dissolved by the Courts for its attacks upon public morals in 1833. Its author attempted suicide in 1823, but escaped with the loss of an eye.—T.
[432] Charles Fourier (1768-1837) was the author of the Phalansterian movement, based upon the Communistic principle.—T.
[433] The system maintaining the simple humanity of Christ, and denying His divinity.—T.
[434] Publius Licinius Gallienus, Roman Emperor (233-268), gave leave to Plotinus to build a town in Campania, to be recalled Platonopolis; but the project fell through.—T.