[58] On the doctrine of Descartes, and on the proof of the existence of God and the true process that he employs, see 1st Series, vol. iv., lecture 12, p. 64, lecture 22, p. 509-518; vol. v., lecture 6, p. 205; 2d Series, vol. xi., lecture 11; especially the three articles, already cited, of the _Journal des Savants_ for the year 1850. [59] See on Malebranche, 2d Series, lecture 2, and 3d Series, vol. iii., _Modern Philosophy_, as well as the _Fragments of Cartesian Philosophy_; preface of the 1st edition of our _Pascal_:--"On this basis, so pure, Malebranche is not steady; is excessive and rash, I know; narrow and extreme, I do not fear to say; but always sublime, expressing only one side of Plato, but expressing it in a wholly Christian spirit and in angelic language. Malebranche is a Descartes who strays, having found divine wings, and lost all connection with the earth." [60] We use the only good edition of the treatise on the Existence of God, that which the Abbe Gosselin has given in the collection of the _Works of Fenelon_. Versailles, 1820. See vol. i., p. 80. [61] Edit. de Versailles, p. 145. [62] It is not necessary to remark how incorrect are the expressions, _representation of the infinite, image of the infinite_, especially _infinite image of the infinite_. We cannot represent to ourselves, we cannot imagine to ourselves the infinite. We conceive the infinite; the infinite is not an object of the imagination, but of the understanding, of reason. See 1st Series, vol. v., lecture 6, p. 223, 224. [63] By a trifling anachronism, for which we shall be pardoned, we have here joined to the _Traite de la Connaissance de Dieu et de Soi-meme_, so long known, the _Logique_, which was only published in 1828.