Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) eBook

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Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 344 pages of information about Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2).

[Footnote 161:  See Essay on Turgot in my Critical Miscellanies, Second Series.]

[Footnote 162:  Such, as that their feudal rights should be confirmed; that none but nobles should carry arms, or be eligible for the army; that lettres-de-cachet should continue; that the press should not be free; that the wine trade should not be free internally or for export; that breaking up wastes and enclosing commons should be prohibited; that the old arrangement of the militia should remain.—­Arthur Young’s France, ch. xxi. p. 607.]

[Footnote 163:  Ib. ch. xxi.]

[Footnote 164:  Critical Miscellanies, Second Series, p. 202.]

[Footnote 165:  Travels in France, p. 600.]

[Footnote 166:  Travels in France, i. 63.]

[Footnote 167:  Rosenkranz, i. 219.]

[Footnote 168:  Avert. to vol. iii]

[Footnote 169:  Diderot, Oeuv., iv. 24.]

[Footnote 170:  Diderot’s Leben, i. 157.]

[Footnote 171:  Oeuv., xx. 132.]

[Footnote 172:  The writer was one Romilly, who had been elected a minister of one of the French Protestant churches in London.  See Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly, vol. i.]

[Footnote 173:  I have no space to quote an interesting page in this article on the characteristics and the varying destinies of genius.  “We must rank in this class Pindar, AEschylus, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mahomet, Shakespeare, Roger Bacon, and Paracelsus.” xvii. 265-267.]

[Footnote 174:  The same idea is found still more ardently expressed in one of his letters to Mdlle. de Voland (Oct. 15, 1759, xviii. 408), where he defends the eagerness of those who have loved one another during life, to be placed side by side after death.]

[Footnote 175:  xiv. 32.]

[Footnote 176:  S.v. Sarrasins, xvii. 82.  See also xviii. 429, for Diderot’s admiration of Sadi.]

[Footnote 177:  S.v.  Pyrrhonienne.]

[Footnote 178:  E.g. in the article on Plaisir, xvi. p. 298.]

[Footnote 179:  To Damilaville, 1766, xix. 477.]

[Footnote 180:  xx. 34.]

[Footnote 181:  xvi. 280.]

[Footnote 182:  See also article Independance.]

[Footnote 183:  iv. 93.]

[Footnote 184:  The reader will find abundant information and criticism upon the Wolffian Philosophy in Professor Edward Caird’s Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, recently published at Glasgow.]

[Footnote 185:  xvi. 491, 492.]

[Footnote 186:  There are casual criticisms on Spinosa in the articles on Identity and Liberty.]

[Footnote 187:  xv. 501.]

[Footnote 188:  xix. 435, 436.]

[Footnote 189:  See below, vol. ii.]

[Footnote 190:  S.v. Luxe, xvi. 23.]

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