doctrine, so congenial to the tone of
18th century philosophism, reigned in the schools for over fifty years,
challenged only by a few who, like Maine de Biran, saw that it gave no
sufficient account of volitional experience. Early in the 19th century,
the romantic awakening of Germany had spread to France, and sensationism
was displaced by the eclectic spiritualism of Victor Cousin.

Condillac's collected works were published in 1798 (23 vols.) and two
or three times subsequently; the last edition (1822) has an
introductory dissertation by A. F. Thery. The _Encyclopedie
methodique_ has a very long article on Condillac (Naigeon).
Biographical details and criticism of the _Traite des systemes_ in J.
P. Damiron's _Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la philosophie au
dixhuitieme siecle_, tome iii.; a full criticism in V. Cousin's _Cours
de l'histoire de la philosophie moderne_, ser. i. tome iii. Consult
also F. Rethore, _Condillac ou l'empirisme et le rationalisme_ (1864);
L. Dewaule, _Condillac et la psychologie anglaise contemporaine_
(1891); histories of philosophy. (H. St.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] i.e. abbot _in commendam_ of the Premonstratensian abbey of Mureau
in the Vosges. (Ed.)

CONDITION (Lat. _condicio_, from _condicere_, to agree upon, arrange;
not connected with _conditio_, from _condere, conditum_, to put
together), a stipulation, agreement. The term is applied technically to
any circumstance, action or event which is regarded as the indispensable
prerequisite of some other circumstance, action or event. It is also
applied generally to the sum of the circumstances in which a person is
situated, and more specifically to favourable or prosperous
circumstances; thus a person of wealth or birth is described as a person
"of condition," or an athlete as being "in condition," i.e. physically
fit, having gone through the necessary course of preliminary training.
In all these senses there is implicit the idea of limitation or
restraint imposed with a view to the attainment of a particular end.

(1) _In Logic_, the term "condition" is closely related to "cause" in so
far as it is applied to prior events, &c., in the absence of which
another event would not take place. It is, however, different from
"cause" inasmuch as it has a predominantly negative or passive
significance. Hence the adjective "conditional" is applied to
propositions in which the truth of the main statement is made to depen