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It is not the same as to its nature; it matters little to religion of what substance is the soul, if only it be virtuous. In the various editions of Voltaire's collected works published in the last century these letters do not appear as a series, but their contents is distributed among the miscellaneous articles, and those of the Dictionnaire philosophique.
Philosophique de l'Académie de Prusse, i. 281, and ii. 278. Condorcet did not actually compete for the prize, but he wrote a very acute piece, suggested by the theme, which was printed in 1790. Oeuv. v. 343. Some of the reasoning is almost verbally identical with Condorcet's.
The author of "Faustin, or le Siecle Philosophique," remarked that there were more than 4000 castrated individuals among the ecclesiastics and others of Italy. The virtuous Pope Clement XIV forbade this practice, and describes it as a terrible abuse; but in spite of the declaration of the Pope the cities of Italy, for some time, still continued to contain great numbers of these victims.
"The Voyage Descriptif et Philosophique de Paris, par L P ," contains the following remarks, the truth of which renders them interesting, and I shall therefore translate them, for the information of those who may chance to peruse these pages. The author observes, "An air of inquietude has succeeded that openness and sociability, which so much distinguished the French.
From the 4th to the 8th of September of that year he was at Geneva attending the Second International Congress of Philosophy, when he lectured on Le Paralogisme psycho-physiologique, or, to quote its new title, Le Cerveau et la Pensee: une illusion philosophique. An illness prevented his visiting Germany to attend the Third Congress held at Heidelberg.
The last book I find to notice is the Abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes, published in 1771 at Geneva, and, after a first attempt at suppression in 1779, finally burnt by the order of the Parlement of Paris of May 25th, 1781, as impious, blasphemous, seditious, and the rest.
The full title of the tract mentioned by Boswell is, A small Whole-Length of Dr. Priestley from his Printed Works. It was published in 1792, and is a very poor piece of writing. Johnson had refused to meet the Abbé Raynal, the author of the Histoire Philosophique et Politique du Commerce des Deux Indes, when he was over in England in 1777. Mrs. Chapone, writing to Mrs.
Between the creative imagination and rational investigation there is a community of nature both presuppose the ability of seizing upon likenesses. See especially J. Philippe, "La déformation et les transformations des images" in Revue Philosophique, May and November, 1897. On Intelligence, Vol. I, Bk. ii, Chap. 2. Sully, Human Mind, I, p. 365; James, Psychology, I, p. 502.
LORD BROUGHAM, "Discourse of Natural Theology," p. 238. STEWART, "Elements of Philosophy," I. 5. LOCKE'S "Essay," b. II. c. 23, § 15. Ibid., b. IV. c. 3, § 6. LOCKE, "Letter to Bishop of Worcester," Works, IV. 31. THOMAS CARLYLE, "Essays," I. 77, 214. C. BONNET, "Palingenesie Philosophique," 4 vols., I. 7, 47, 52. DR. PRIESTLEY, "Disquisitions," pp. 37, 38. DR. THOMAS BROWN, "Lectures," No.
Jean would sit drawing pictures or dreaming over his copy-books at one end of the table where Mademoiselle Servien had just cleared away the meal. His father would be busy with a book. As age advanced he had acquired a taste for reading, his favourites being La Fontaine's Fables, Anquetil's History of France, and Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, "to get the hang of things," as he put it.
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