I then discussed the various etymologies proposed by M. de Caseneuve, the prelate, J. S. Assemani, M. Falconet, the celebrated Reiske, M. Court de Gebelin, the Abbé S. Assemani, of Padua, and lastly, Le Moyne; and I showed that none of these writers had given the true etymology of the name, with the exception of Le Moyne, who had, indeed, perceived, that the denomination of _Assassins_ or _Assissins_, was derived from the Arabic word _Haschisch_ (Hashish). “But,” I add, “M. Le Moyne did not know why the Ismailites bore the designation of _Haschischin_ (_Hashishin_), and he has given a very bad reason, which has caused the proscription of his etymology.” Messrs. M. R. assuredly imagine, that it is merely conjecturally that I have maintained that the Ismailites were designated by the name of _Haschischin_ (_Hashishin_), by the Arabs: for they express themselves thus: “The oldest Italian and French authors commonly write _Assassini_, sometimes _Heissessini_, and _Assissini_; Joinville wrote it _Haussaci_. On these grounds, M. de Sacy _doubts not_, that the Arabic which has served as the type, was _Haschisch_ (_Hashish_), signifying _herb_, in general, and in one particular meaning, _hemp_. Now, because the Arabs have long known how to prepare a beverage from hemp, which intoxicates and maddens like opium; and because this beverage has sometimes been made use of to stimulate fanatics to the deed, which the Musulmans call _the holy war_, namely, _premeditated murder_, M. de Sacy will have it, that the whole sect of the Ismailites, which supplied many of this kind of fanatics, was called _Hachichi_ or _Haschischi_ (_Hashishi_); that is, the _herb people_, but, in order to establish this, it is necessary, in the first place, to prove, that the use of this beverage was habitual and general among this sect; so much so, as to distinguish them from all other Arabs, who used it, but without becoming murderers like them. History teaches us nothing similar. It even appears, that this artificial means could only have been employed when their primitive zeal began to cool; but, moreover, the word _haschisch_ (_hashish_), differs too strongly from the words _Assassin_, _Heissessin_, and _Haussaci_, to have served as their original root.”