[2] The Appendix has been translated by Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton of the British Museum, who is alone entitled to credit and alone responsible.—Tr.
[3] We have so much felt the necessity of understanding well the philosophy of the century that ours succeeds, that three times we have undertaken the history of philosophy in the eighteenth century, here first, in 1818, then in 1819 and 1820, and that is the subject of the last three volumes of the 1st Series of our works; finally, we resumed it in 1829, vol. ii. and iii. of the 2d Series.
[4] This word was used by the old English writers, and there is no reason why it should not be retained.
[5] On the method of Descartes, see 1st Series, vol. iv., lecture 20; 2d Series, vol. i., lecture 2; vol. ii., lecture 11; 3d Series, vol. iii., Philosophie Moderne, as well as Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne; 5th Series, Instruction Publique, vol. ii., Défense de l'Université et de la Philosophie, p. 112, etc.
[6] On this return to the scholastic form in Descartes, see 1st Series, vol iv., lecture 12, especially three articles of the Journal des Savants, August, September, and October, 1850, in which we have examined anew the principles of Cartesianism, à propos the Leibnitii Animadversiones ad Cartesii Principia Philosophiæ.
[7] See on Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibnitz, 2d Series, vol. ii., lectures 11 and 12; 3d Series, vol. iv., Introduction aux Œuvres Philosophiques de M. de Biran, p. 288; and the Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne, passim.
[8] On Locke, see 1st Series, vol. iii., lecture 1, especially 2d Series, vol. iii., Examen du Système de Locke.
[9] 1st Series, vol. iii., lectures 2 and 3.
[10] 1st Series, vol. iv., lectures on the Scotch School.
[11] See on Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason, vol. v. of the 1st Series, where that great work is examined with as much extent as that of Reid in vol. iv., and the Essay of Locke in vol. iii. of the 2d Series.