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Florimond lay as near as La Rochette, detained there by a touch of fever, but promising to be at Condillac by the end of the week. Since that was so, Valerie opined there was no longer the need to put themselves to the trouble of the escape they had planned. Let them wait until Florimond came. But Garnache shook his head.
The culminating point of this philosophy is the noted aphorism of Condillac, that a science is nothing, or scarcely any thing, but une langue bien faite; in other words, that the one sufficient rule for discovering the nature and properties of objects is to name them properly: as if the reverse were not the truth, that it is impossible to name them properly except in proportion as we are already acquainted with their nature and properties.
Was it not that the compulsion her own father had employed to make her find a mate in a man so much older than herself as Condillac that had warped her own nature, and done much to make her what she was? A lover she had had, and whilst he lived she had resisted them, and stood out against this odious marriage that for convenience' sake they forced upon her.
There can be little doubt that the recent revival of speculative "Idealism" was the result, at least in part, of a strong reaction against the "sensational" philosophy, which had degenerated in the school of Priestley at home, and in that of Condillac abroad, into a system of gross and revolting Materialism.
"Monsieur Fortunio," the Marquise said, very softly, "heed not Monsieur Marius's words. Attend to me. The Marquis de Condillac, as no doubt you will have learned for yourself, is lying at La Rochette. Now it happens that he is noxious to us let the reasons be what they may. We need a friend to put him out of our way. Will you be that friend?"
The matter that brought Monsieur de Tressan to Condillac and brought him in most fearful haste was the matter of the courier who had that day arrived at the chateau. News of it had reached the ears of my Lord Seneschal.
He spread his hands, long and almost transparent in their leanness, and on his face a cloud of sorrow rested. "Nevertheless, Father," said Garnache, "twenty brothers of Saint Francis shall bear the body home to Condillac, and you yourself shall head this grim procession." "I?" The monk shrank back before him, and his figure seemed to grow taller.
It was not until 1754 that Condillac published his more celebrated treatise on the Sensations, in which he advanced a stride beyond Locke, and instead of tracing our notions to the double source of sensation and reflection, maintained that reflection itself is nothing but sensation "differently transformed."
Before such numbers it was unthinkable that these gentlemen assuming them to be acting on behalf of Condillac should dare to attempt foul measures with him.
Condillac embarked on a quest similar to this by his famous hypothesis of a statue to which various feelings were successively imparted. Its first feeling was supposed to be one of fragrance. But to avoid all possible complication with the question of genesis, let us not attribute even to a statue the possession of our imaginary feeling.
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