[Footnote 3103: Chevremont, I., pp. I and 2. His family, on the father's side, was Spanish, long settled in Sardinia. The father, Dr. Jean Mara, had abandoned Catholicism and removed to Geneva where he married a woman of that city; he afterwards established himself in the canton of Neufchatel.] [Footnote 3104: "Journal de la République Française" No.98, description of "l'Ami du peuple" by himself.] [Footnote 3105: Read his novel "Les Aventures du jeune comte Potowski," letter 5, by Lucile: "I think of Potowski only. My imagination, inflamed at the torch of love, ever presents to me his sweet image." Letter of Potowski after his marriage. "Lucile now grants to love all that modesty permits... enjoying such transports of bliss, I believe that the gods are jealous of my lot."] [Footnote 3106: Preface, XX. "Descartes, Helvetius, Haller, Lelat all ignored great principles; Man, with them, is an enigma, an impenetrable secret." He says in a foot-note, "We find evidence of this in the works of Hume, Voltaire, Bonnet, Racine and Pascal."] [Footnote 3107: "Mémoires Académiques sur la Lumière," pref., VII.--He especially opposes "the differential refrangibility of heterogeneous rays" which is "the basis of Newton's theory."] [Footnote 3108: Chevremont, I., 74. (See the testimony of Arago, Feb.24, 1844).] [Footnote 3109: Ibid., I., 104. (Sketch of a declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen).] [Footnote 3110: See the epigraph of his "Mémoires sur la Lumiere." "They will force their way against wind and tide."--Ibid., preface, VII. "Déconvertes de Monsieur Marat," 1780, 2nd ed., p. 140.] [Footnote 3111: "Recherches physiques sur l'electricité," 1782, pp.13, 17.] [Footnote 3112: Chevremont, I., 59.] [Footnote 3113: "De l'Homme," preface VII. and book IV.] [Footnote 3114: "Journal de la République Française," No 98.] [Footnote 3115: "Journal de la République Française," by Marat, No. I.]