Isaac, Isaac Newton

80. Locke's philosophy, the resuit of the scientific movement inaugrurated by Copemicus, Kepler, and Galileo, supported the school of deists and was therefore extremely obnoxious to catholies. As France was a catholic country, no writer could be popular in France who did not respect the popular religion. This is the reason why Voltaire, though eager to see his System become known and accepted, yet did, at this time, ail he could to disguise and weaken its most salient points. Later he pursued a more open course, but anonymously or under assumed names.

86. Thierlot, an early f riend then living in London, to whom Voltaire abandoned the entire profits of the London édition of the Lettres Anglaises,

40. Non me fata, etc., the foies toould not permit me to torite freely pUasant nonsense and cover paper wtth fandes woventogether to suit my

In the Aeneid (iv , 840) we read :

Me si f ata meis paterent duoere yltam Auspidls, et sponte mea componere curas.

That is:

• . . Had f ate Permitted me to lead my lif e at will.

Or shape my wlshes as I.would . . .

—Tr. by John D. Long.