aux racines (dative of characteristic), with roots

Page 115. — 1. Siéyès (or Sieyès, as on last page), cf. page 114, note 3.

Page 122. — 1. s'il ne verse pas dans l'égoïsme, if he does not fall into (or abandon himself to) a selfish policy.

Page 123. — 1. l'Académie des Sciences, a national academy, founded in 1666.

Page 124. — 1. Bénédictins, a very ancient monastic order, noted for the vast labors in learned research to which its members devoted themselves.

2. faisait de l'esprit, a justifiable stricture made by Voltaire.

3. Ducis, an eighteenth-century adapter of Shakespeare — whom he strangely transformed according to the precepts of a timid classicism.

4. Mahomet, a tragedy of Voltaire, full of eighteenth-century rationalism and without an.y effort at reconstituting the historié environment and character of its hero.

Page 126. — 1. Persan, cf. page 93, note 3. 2. Brahma (Sanskrit), God.

Page 129. — i. Encyclopédistes, those whose opinions were représentée! by Diderot's Encyclopédie (cf. page 112, note 1).

2. d'Alembert (1717-83), a celebrated mathematician and writer, Diderot's chief associate in the Encyclopédie.

3. Lamarck (1 744-1829), noted biologist, and chief precursor of Darwin.

4. d'Holbach (1723-89), a Gallicized German baron, noted for gastronomie munificence and scandalously irreligious philosophism. He wrote Le Système de la Nature.

5. Lamettrie or La Mettrie (1709-51), a physician and philosophe. Carrying Descartes's animal automatism to its remotest conséquences, he wrote V homme-machine, V homme-plante, etc.