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Magnetism, the favorite science of Jesus Christ and one of the divine powers which he gave to his disciples, was no better apprehended by the Church than by the disciples of Jean-Jacques, Voltaire, Locke, and Condillac. The Encyclopedists and the clergy were equally averse to the old human power which they took to be new.
According to Locke, there are two originating causes sensation and reflection; and Condillac reduces everything to sensation. But then reflection will lack a basis.
"No, no," she cried, her alarm waking again at the thought of the folk of Condillac. "Make haste! Go on, go on! Mon Dieu! if they should overtake us!" He looked over his shoulder. The road ran straight for over a half-mile behind them, and not a living thing showed upon it. "You need have no alarm," he smiled. "We are not pursued. They must have realized the futility of attempting to overtake us.
And to this wise remark is appended a note, setting forth that Charles the Second gave to the Duchess of Cleveland the money which he ought to have spent on the war with Holland. We scarcely know how to answer a man who unites so much pretension to so much ignorance. There are, among the many Utilitarians who talk about Hume, Condillac, and Hartley, a few who have read those writers.
When they were alone together he and she in her anteroom in the Northern Tower, she turned to him before he had time to question her as he was intending. "A courier has arrived," said she. "I know; I saw him in the courtyard. Whence is he? Did you learn it?" "From Florimond." She was white with agitation. "From the Marquis de Condillac?" he cried, and he knew not whether to hope or fear.
His reading was not wide; he knew something of the doctrines taught by Stewart and Stewart's successor, Brown. He had been especially impressed by Hobbes, to some degree by Locke and Hume, but above all by Hartley. He knew something, too, of Condillac and the French Ideologists. Of recent German speculation he was probably quite ignorant.
"From Italy?" "No, monsieur. I do not think from Italy. From what was said I gathered that Florimond is already on his way to Condillac. Oh, it made a fine stir. It left them no more appetite for dinner, and they seem to have thought it could have left me none for mine, for they ordered my instant return to my apartments." "Then you know nothing save that the courier is from the Marquis?"
The metaphysicians of the Condillac school,—whose admiration of Locke, passing over the profoundest speculations of that truly original genius, usually fastens with peculiar eagerness upon his weakest points,—have gone on imitating him in this abuse of language, until there is now some difficulty in restoring the word to its original signification.
"I am here, monsieur," answered him Garnache, throwing back his head, his nostrils quivering, "because you are not at Condillac." The tone was truculent to the point of defiance, for despite the firm resolve he had taken last night never again to let his temper overmaster him, already Garnache's self-control was slipping away. The Marquis noted the tone, and observed the man.
Garnache bowed in token of his perfect satisfaction, and at that moment two servants entered bearing flagons and beakers, fruits and sweetmeats, which they placed upon the table. The Dowager rose, and went to do the honours of the board. The servants withdrew. "You will taste our wine of Condillac, monsieur?"
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