[Footnote 210: xix. 149.] [Footnote 211: xix. 90.] [Footnote 212: xix. 163, 164.] [Footnote 213: Sept. 20, 1765; xix. 179-187.] [Footnote 214: xviii. 476, 478.] [Footnote 215: xviii. 479. Comte writes more seriously somewhat in the same sense: "For thirty centuries the priestly castes of China, and still more of India, have been watching our Western transition; to them it must appear mere agitation, as puerile as it is tempestuous, with nothing to harmonise its different phases but their common inroad upon unity." _Positive Polity_, iv. 11 (English Translation)] [Footnote 216: xix. 233.] [Footnote 217: Voltaire's Satire on the Economists.] [Footnote 218: Oct. 8, 1768; xix. 832.] [Footnote 219: xviii. 509.] [Footnote 220: xviii. 513.] [Footnote 221: xviii. 511-513.] [Footnote 222: xix. 244.] [Footnote 223: xviii. 459.] [Footnote 224: xix. 259.] [Footnote 225: _Lettres de Mdlle. de Lespinasse_, viii. p. 20. (Ed. Asse, 1876.)] [Footnote 226: Aug. 1, 1769; xix. 365.] [Footnote 227: (1765-69) xix. 381-412. Also p. 318.] [Footnote 228: June 1756; xix. 433-436.] [Footnote 229: Aug. 1762; xix. 112.] [Footnote 230: In _Rousseau_, vol. i. ch. vii. (Globe 8vo, ed.)] [Footnote 231: Dec. 1757; xix. 446.] [Footnote 232: xix. 449.] [Footnote 233: Dec. 20, 1765; xix. 210.] [Footnote 234: See _Rousseau_, vol. i. ch. vii. (Globe 8vo. ed.)] [Footnote 235: Oct. 9, 1759; xviii. 397.] [Footnote 236: Nov. 6, 1760; xix. 17.] [Footnote 237: Sept. 17, 1761; xix. 47.] [Footnote 238: Sept. 17, 1769; xix. 320.] [Footnote 239: _Lettres sur le Commerce de la Librairie_, xviii. 47.] [Footnote 240: See _Rousseau_, vol. ii. ch. i. (Globe 8vo. ed.)] [Footnote 241: Diderot's _Lettre sur le Commerce de la Librairie_ (1767). _Oeuv._, xviii.]