[5] The principle of caste in India; we see this in the contrast between the Aryans and the aborigines, the Soudras and the Pariahs.

[6] In accordance with this principle the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands passed a law forbidding the sale of liquor to the natives and allowing it to Europeans. (De Varigny, “Quatorze ans aux iles Sandwich.”)

[7] Cf.  Le Play, “De l’Organization de la famille,” (the history of a domain in the Pyrenees.)

[8] See, especially, in Brahmin literature the great metaphysical poems and the Puranas.

[9] Montaigne (1533-92) apparently also had ’sympathetic imagination’ when he wrote:  “I am most tenderly symphathetic towards the afflictions of others,” ("On Cruelty"). (Sr.)

[10] Voltaire, “Dic.  Phil.” the article on Punishments.

[11] “Resumé des cahiers,” by Prud’homme, preface, 1789.

[12] Voltaire, Dialogues, Entretiens entre A. B. C.

[13] Voltaire, “Dict.Phil.,” the article on Religion.  “If there is a hamlet to be governed it must have a religion.”

[14] “Le rêve de d’Alembert,” by Diderot, passim.

[15] “If a misanthrope (a hater of mankind) had proposed to himself to injure humanity what could he have invented better than faith in an incomprehensible being, about which men never could come to any agreement, and to which they would attach more importance than to their own existence?” Diderot, “Entretien d’un philosophe avec la Maréchale de .....” (And that is just what our Marxist sociologist, psychologists etc have done in inventing a human being bereft of those emotions which in other animals force them to give in to their maternal, paternal and leadership instincts thereby making them happy in the process..  Sr.)

[16] Cf.  “Catéchisme Universel,” by Saint-Lambert, and the “Loi naturelle ou Catéchisme du citoyen français,” by Volney.

[17] “Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.”

[18] Cf.  “Mémoires de Mm.  D’Epinay,” a conversation with Duclos and Saint-Lambert at the house of Mlle. Quinault. — Rousseau’s “Confessions,” part I, book V. These are the same principles taught by M. de la Tavel to Mme. De Warens.

[19] “Suite du rêve de d’Alembert.”  “Entretien entre Mlls. de Lespinasse et Bordeu.” — “Mémoires de Diderot,” a letter to Mlle. Volant, III. 66.

[20] Cf. his admirable tales, “Entretiens d’un père avec ses enfants,” and “Le neveu de Rameau.”

[21] Volney, ibid .  “The natural law . . . consists wholly of events whose repetition may be observed through the senses and which create a science as precise and accurate as geometry and mathematics.”

[22] Helvétius, “De l’Esprit.” passim.

[23] Volney, ibid.  Chap.  III.  Saint-Lambert, ibid.  The first dialogue.

[24] D’Holbach, “Systeme de la Nature,” II. 408 493.

[25] D’Holbach, “Système de la nature, " I. 347.