[Footnote 5:  The birth of the Alexandrine philosophy is due to contact with the Orient.  Aristotle’s metaphysical views stand alone.  Moreover, with him as with Plato, they afford merely a glimpse.  By way of contrast see systematic power in Plotinus, Proclus, Schelling, and Hegel, or again in the admirable boldness of Brahmanic and Buddhist speculation.]

[Footnote 6:  I have very often made attempts to state this law, especially in the preface to “Essais de Critique et d’Histoire.”]

[Footnote 7:  From 1550 to 1750.]

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