list of the foremost men who helped to raise the encyclopaedic monument.  He was one of the shrewdest and most vigorous intelligences of the time, being in the front rank of men of the second order.  His quality was coarse, but this was only the effect of a thoroughly penetrating and masculine understanding.  His articles in the Encyclopaedia (Declamation des Anciens, Etiquette, etc.) are not very remarkable; but the reflections on conduct which he styled Considerations sur les Moeurs de ce Siecle (1750), though rather hard in tone, abound in an acuteness, a breadth, a soundness of perception that entitle the book to the rare distinction, among the writings of moralists and social observers, of still being worth reading.  Morellet wrote upon some of the subjects of theology, and his contributions are remarkable as being the chief examples in the record of the encyclopaedic body of a distinctly and deliberately historic treatment of religion.  “I let people see,” he wrote many years after, “that in such a collection as the Encyclopaedia we ought to treat the history and experience of the dogmas and discipline of the Christian, exactly like those of the religion of Brahma or Mahomet."[114] This sage and philosophic principle enabled him to write the article, Fils de Dieu (vol. vi.), without sliding into Arian, Nestorian, Socinian, or other heretical view on that fantastic theme.  We need not linger over the names of other writers, who indeed are now little more than mere shadows of names, such as La Condamine, a scientific traveller of fame and merit in his day and generation; of Du Marsais, the poverty-stricken and unlucky scholar who wrote articles on grammar; of the President Des Brosses, who was unfortunate enough to be in the right in a quarrel about money with Voltaire, and who has since been better known to readers through the fury of the provoked patriarch, than through his own meritorious contributions to the early history of civilisation.

The name of one faithful worker in the building of this new Jerusalem ought not to be omitted, though his writings were multa non multum.  The Chevalier de Jaucourt (1704-1779), as his title shows, was the younger son of a noble house.  He studied at Geneva, Cambridge, and Leyden, and published in 1734 a useful account of the life and writings of Leibnitz.  When the Encyclopaedia was projected, his services were at once secured, and he became its slave from the beginning of A to the end of Z. He wrote articles in his own special subjects of natural history and physical science, but he was always ready to lend his help in other departments, in writing, rewriting, reading, correcting, and all those other humbler necessities of editorship of which the inconsiderate reader knows little and thinks less.  Jaucourt revelled in this drudgery.  God made him for grinding articles, said Diderot.  For six or seven years, he wrote one day, Jaucourt has been in the middle of