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[1] How right Taine was. The 20th century should see a rebirth of violent Jacobinism in Russia， China， Cambodia， Korea， Cuba， Germany， Italy， Yugoslavia and Albania and of soft and creeping Jacobinism in the entire Western world. (SR.)[2]. "Who， born within the last forty years， ever read a word of Collins， and Toland， and Tindal， or of that whole race who called themselves freethinkers？" (Burke， "Reflexions on the French Revolutions，" 1790).

[3]. The "Oedipe，" by Voltaire， belongs to the year 1718， and his "Lettres sur les Anglais，" to the year 1728. The "Lettres Persanes，"by Montesquieu， published in 1721， contain the germs of all the leading ideas of the century.

[4]. "Raison" (cult of). Cult proposed by the Hébertists and aimed at replacing Christianity under the French Revolution. The Cult of Reason was celebrated in the church of Notre Dame de Paris on the 10th of November 1793. The cult disappeared with the Hébertists (March 1794) and Robespierre replaced it with the cult of the Superior Being. (SR.)[5]. Joseph de Maistre， Oeuvres inédites，" pp. 8， 11.

[6]. Diderot's letters on the Blind and on the Deaf and Dumb are addressed in whole or in part to women.

[7]. "Correspondence of Gouverneur Morris，" (in English)， II， 89.

(Letter of January 24， 1790)

[8]. John Andrews in "A comparative view，" etc. (1785). - Arthur Young， I. 123. "I should pity the man who expected， without other advantages of a very different nature， to be well received in a brilliant circle in London， because he was a fellow of the Royal Society. But this would not be the case with a member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris， he is sure of a good reception everywhere."[9]. "I met in Paris the d'Alemberts， the Marmontels， the Baillys at the houses of duchesses， which was an immense advantage to all concerned. . . . When a man with us devotes himself to writing books he is considered as renouncing the society equally of those who govern as of those who laugh. . . Taking literary vanity into account the lives of your d'Alemberts and Baillys are as pleasant as those of your seigniors." (Stendhal， "Rome， Naples et Florence，" 377， in a narrative by Col. Forsyth).

[10]. "Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Maréchale -."[11]. The television audience today cannot threaten never again to invite the boring "philosopher" to dinner， but will zap away， a move that the system accurately senses. The rules that Taine describes are， alas， therefore once more valid. (SR.)[12]. The same process is observable in our day in the "Sophismes économiques" of Bastiat， the "Eloges historiques" of Flourens， and in "Le Progrès，" by Edmond About.

[13]. The "Portier de Chartreux." (An infamous pornographic book.

(SR.))

[14]. "Thérese Philosophe." There is a complete literature of this species.

[15]. See the edition of M. Dauban in which the suppressed passages are restored.

[16]. "Esprit des Lois，" ch. XV. book V. (Reasons in favor of slavery). The "Defence of the Esprit des Lois，" I. Reply to the second objection. II. Reply to the fourth objection.

[17]. Letter 24 (on Louis XIV.)

[18]. Letter 18 (on the purity and impurity of things). Letter 39(proofs of the mission of Mohammed).

[19]. Letters 75 and 118.

[20]. Letters 98 (on the modern sciences)， 46 (on a true system of worship)， 11 and 14 (on the nature of justice).

[21]. Cf "Micromégas，" "L'homme aux quarantes écus，" "Dialogues entre A， B， C，" Dic. Philosophique，" passim. - In verse， "Les systèmes，" "La loi naturelle，" "Le pour et le countre，"， "Discours sur l'homme，" etc.

[22]. "Traité de métaphysique，" chap. I. p.1 (on the peasantry).

- "Lettres sur les Anglais，" passim. - "Candide，" passim. -"La Princesse de Babylone，" ch. VII. VIII. IX. and XI.

[23] "Dict. Phil." articles， "Maladie，" (Replies to the princess).

- "Candide，" at Madame de Parolignac. The sailor in the wreck.

Narrative of Paquette. - The "Ingénu，" the first chapters.