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69. Ibid., 393.

70. Diderot, Salons, I, I.

71.Ibid., 79.

72. Faguet, Dix-huitième Siècle, 230.

73. Diderot, Salons, I, 188.

74. Crocker, 176.

75. Ibid., 196.

76. Chambers, F. P., History of Taste, 146.

77. Ibid., 140 f.

78. Hauser, Arnold, Social History of Art, II, 533.

79. Salons, I, 418.

80. Morley, Diderot, II, 79.

81. Crocker, 19.

82. Cru, 287.

83. Wilson, 273.

84. Crocker, 243.

85.Wilson, 326.

86. Voltaire, Phil. Dict., article “Rhyme.”

87. Wilson, 237.

88. Sime, Lessing, I, 209.

89. Diderot, Paradox of Acting, 14, 18.

90. Cru, 328.

91. Hamlet, III, ii.

92. Lee Strasberg, in Diderot, Paradox of Acting, introd., x.

93. Wordsworth’s phrase.

94. Ellis, The New Spirit, 56.

95. Hazard, 383.

96. Crocker, Embattled Philos., 232–33.

97. Michelet, V, 408n.

98. Morley, Diderot, I, 30.

99. Mme. d’Épinay, Memoirs, II, 73.

100. Taine, Ancient Regime, 266.

101. Diderot, Oeuvres, 143.

102. Crocker, 26.

103. Salons, II, 354.

104. Crocker, 147.

105. Ibid.

106. Letter of July 14, 1762.

107. Crocker, 297.

108. Ibid., 213–15.

109. 220.

110. “Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre,” in Oeuvres, 733.

111. Crocker, 301.

112. Morley, I, 262.

113. Crocker, 302.

114. Marmontel, Memoirs, I, 360.

115. Morley, Diderot, I, 41.

116. Crocker, 292.

117. Wilson, 8.

118. Morley, I, 10.

119. Fellows and Torrey, Diderot Studies, I, ix.

120. Letter to King Stanislas Poniatowski in Aldis, Madame Geoffrin, 185.

121. Fellows and Torrey, Diderot Studies, I, vii.

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1. Cumming, Ian, Helvétius, 36.

2.Ibid., 57.

3. Marmontel, Memoirs, I, 258.

4. Cumming, 137.

5. Parton, Voltaire, II, 302.

6. Helvétius, Treatise on Man (De l’Homme), Vol. II, p. 480.

7. Grimm, Corresp., II, 262.

8. Helvétius, Treatise on Man, Section II, Ch. iii.

9. Helvétius, De l’Esprit, p. 11.

10.Ibid., in Grossman, Philosophy of Helvétius, 88.

11. Helvétius, De l’Esprit, 175, 222, 277.

12.Treatise on Man, IV, i.

13. Ibid., III, ii and iv.

14. IV, xxiii.

15. IV, iii and i.

16. VI, i.

17.De l’Esprit, p. 489.

18. Treatise, VII, iv.

19. Ibid., I, iii.

20. II, xxi.

21. I, ix.

22. II, xxii.

23. I, iii.

24. I, x.

25. VII, i.

26. I, ii.

27. VII, i.

28.De l’Esprit, p. 174.

29. Treatise, IX, xxxi.

30. Ibid., IV, xxi.

31. I, xiv.

32. I, xiii-xiv.

33. VII, xii.

34. VII, iii and iv.

35. Mordecai Grossman in Horowitz, Claude Helvétius, p. 18.

36. Treatise, V, iii-x.

37. Ibid., VI, viii.

38. V, iii-iv.

39. V, iii.

40. De l’Esprit, p. 279; Cumming, 79.

41.Treatise, VI, i.

42. De l’Esprit, pp. 6, 17.

43. In Martin, K., p. 180.

44. Treatise, II, vii.

45.De l’Esprit, p. 269.

46.Ibid., 47; Grossman, Philosophy of Helvétius, 96.

47.De l’Esprit, 29.

48. Ibid., 184, 144.

49. Treatise, IV, ii.

50. Horowitz, p. 100.

51. Ibid., 121.

52. Treatise, VI, v and x.

53. Ibid., VI, xv.

54. VI, vii and xi.

55. VIII, iii and v.

56. Brunetière, Essays in French Literature, p. 327.

57. Buckle, I, 624n.

58. Cassirer, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 64.

59. Crocker, Age of Crisis, 123.

60. In Grossman, Philosophy of Helvétius, 147.

61. Crocker, Embattled Philos., 408.

62. Victor Cousin, Histoire de la philosophie, III, 201, in Buckle, I, 624n.

63. Money, Diderot, II, 141.

64. Cumming, 218.

65. Morley, II, 142.

66. Grossman, 169.

67. Marmontel, Memoirs, I, 258.

68. Cumming, 139.

69. De l’Esprit, 87; Morley, II, 157.

70. D’Alembert, Éléments de philosophie, in Cassirer, Enlightenment, 4.

71. Sainte-Beuve, Portraits of the 18th Century, II, 105.

72. Wickwar, Baron d’Holbach, 86.

73. Ibid., 59–60; Mornet, Origines, 107.

74. Gooch, Catherine the Great and Other Studies, 192.

75. Marmontel, Memoirs, I, 256.

76. Morley, Life of Voltaire, 215.

77. Morley, Diderot, II, 193.

78. Robertson, J. M., Short History of Free-thought, II, 254.

79. Morley, Diderot, II, 194.

80. Rousseau, Confessions, 139.

81. Robertson, J. M., II, 254.

82. Morley, Diderot, II, 215.

83. Wickwar, 22.

84. Ibid., 23, 27.

85. Diderot, letter of May 10, 1759.

86. Marmontel, I, 351.

87.Ibid.

88. Wickwar, 39; Burton, Life of Hume, II, 220.

89. Gibbon, Memoirs, in Mossner, Life of David Hume, 485.