[150] P. 100, l. 27. When it is said, etc.—­By Descartes.

[151] P. 102, l. 20. Arcesilaus.—­A follower of Pyrrho, the sceptic. 
      He lived in the third century before Christ.

[152] P. 105, l. 20. Ecclesiastes.—­Eccles. viii, 17.

[153] P. 106, l. 16. The academicians.—­Dogmatic sceptics, as opposed
      to sceptics who doubt their own doubt.

[154] P. 107, l. 10. Ego vir videns.—­Lamentations iii, I.

[155] P. 108, l. 26. Evil is easy, etc.—­The Pythagoreans considered
      the good as certain and finite, and evil as uncertain and
      infinite.  Montaigne, Essais, i, 9.

[156] P. 109, l. 7. Paulus AEmilius.—­Montaigne, Essais, i, 19. 
      Cicero, Tusc., v, 40.

[157] P. 109, l. 30. Des Barreaux.—­Author of a licentious love song. 
      He was born in 1602, and died in 1673.  Balzac call him “the new
      Bacchus.”

[158] P. 110, l. 16. For Port-Royal.—­The letters, A. P. R., occur in
      several places, and are generally thought to indicate what will be
      afterwards treated in lectures or conferences at Port-Royal, the
      famous Cistercian abbey, situated about eighteen miles from Paris. 
      Founded early in the thirteenth century, it acquired its greatest
      fame in its closing years.  Louis XIV was induced to believe it
      heretical; and the monastery was finally demolished in 1711.  Its
      downfall was no doubt brought about by the Jesuits.

[159] P. 113, l. 4. They all tend to this end.—­Montaigne, Essais,
      i, 19.

[160] P. 119, l. 15. Quod ergo, etc.—­Acts xvii, 23.

[161] P. 119, l. 26. Wicked demon.—­Descartes had suggested the
      possibility of the existence of an evil genius to justify his
      method of universal doubt.  See his First Meditation.  The
      argument is quite Cartesian.

[162] P. 122, l. 18. Deliciae meae, etc.—­Proverbs viii, 31.

[163] P. 122, l. 18. Effundam spiritum, etc.—­Is. xliv, 3; Joel ii,
      28.

[164] P. 122, l. 19. Dii estis.—­Ps. lxxxii, 6.

[165] P. 122, l. 20. Omnis caro faenum.—­Is. xl, 6.

[166] P. 122, l. 20. Homo assimilatus, etc.—­Ps. xlix, 20.

[167] P. 124, l. 24. Sapientius est hominibus.—­1 Cor. i, 25.

[168] P. 125, l. 1. Of original sin.—­The citations from the Rabbis in
      this fragment are borrowed from a work of the Middle Ages,
      entitled Pugio christianorum ad impiorum perfidiam jugulandam et
      maxime judaeorum.  It was written in the thirteenth century by
      Raymond Martin, a Catalonian monk.  An edition of it appeared in
      1651, edited by Bosquet, Bishop of Lodeve.