ns les Sciences."

[70] "Eine thaetige Skepsis ist die, welche unablaessig bemueht ist sich
selbst zu ueberwinden, und durch geregelte Erfahrung zu einer Art von
bedingtrer Zuverlaessigkeit zu gelangen."--_Maximen und Reflexionen_, 7
Abtheilung.

[71] "Au milieu de toutes ses erreurs, il ne faut pas meconnaitre une
grande idee, qui consiste a avoir tente pour la premiere fois de ramener
tous les phenomenes naturels a n'etre qu'un simple develloppement des
lois de la mecanique," is the weighty judgment of Biot, cited by
Bouillier (_Histoire de la Philosophie Cartesienne_, t. i. p. 196).

[72] "Traite de l'Homme" (Cousin's Edition), p. 347.

[73] Descartes pretends that he does not apply his views to the human
body, but only to an imaginary machine which, if it could be
constructed, would do all that the human body does; throwing a sop to
Cerberus unworthily; and uselessly, because Cerberus was by no means
stupid enough to swallow it.

[74] "Traite de l'Homme," p. 427.

[75] Compare "Traite des Passions," Art. XIII. and XVI.

[76] Bouillier, into whose excellent "History of the Cartesian
Philosophy" I had not looked when this passage was written, says, very
justly, that Descartes "a merite le titre de pere de la physique, aussi
bien que celui de pere de la metaphysique moderne" (t. i. p. 197). See
also Kuno Fischer's "Geschichte der neuen Philosophie," Bd. i.; and the
very remarkable work of Lange, "Geschichte des Materialismus."--A good
translation of the latter would be a great service to philosophy in
England.

[77] For all the qualifications which need to be made here, I refer the
reader to the thorough discussion of the nature of the relation between
nerve-action and consciousness in Mr. Herbert Spencer's "Principles of
Psychology," p. 115 _et seq._

[78]
"And this is she who's put on cross so much,
Even by them who ought to give her praise,
Giving her wrongly ill repute and blame.
But she is blessed, and she hears not this:
She, with the other primal creatures, glad
Revolves her sphere, and blessed joys herself."

_Inferno_, vii. 90-95 (W.M. Rossetti's Translation).

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