Lalande, a distinguished eighteenth-century astronomer

Page 130. — 1. idéologues, cf. page 113, note 2.

2. Hobbes (1 588-1679), an English philosopher. His unideal theory of morals was purely sensational and egoistic, instinctive self-love being the basis of ail action. His method was rigidly logical, recoiling before no conséquence of his thought however extrême.

Page 131. — 1. encyclopédique, cf. page 129, note 1. ,

Page 132. — i. Chatterton, an English poet, who committed suicide in his eighteenth year (1770). He has often served as the symbol of the délicate poetic tempérament vainly struggling to accommodate itself to a materialistic world.

2. René, the hero of Chateaubriand's most famous taie, for whom the author has served as model; cf. page 16, note I.

3. Werther, a création of the youthful Goethe (1774). His extravagant romanticism culminâtes in suicide.

4. bon homme (obsolète), for the usual homme de bien. Bon homme means ordinarily a simple, credulous, inconsequential man.