Our errors springing in no wise from malice, but being the natural consequence of human frailty, we hope that they will be pardoned to us in this world and the other. We beseech the small number of heavenly spirits who are still shut up in France in mortal bodies, and who, from there, enlighten the universe at _thirty sous_ the sheet, to communicate their luminousness to us for the tenth volume which we reckon on publishing at the end of Lent 1772, or in Advent 1773; and for their luminousness we will pay _forty sous_. This tenth volume will contain some very curious articles, which, if God favours us, will give new point to the salt which we shall endeavour to bestow in the thanks we shall give to these gentlemen. Executed on Mount Krapack, the thirtieth day of the month of Janus, the year of the world according to Scaliger 5722 according to Riccioli 5956 according to Eusebius 6972 according to the Alphonsine Tables 8707 according to the Egyptians 370000 according to the Chaldeans 465102 according to the Brahmins 780000 according to the philosophers infinity FOOTNOTES: [23] The Philosophical Dictionary was first published as "Questions on the Encyclopedia," then reprinted as "Reason by Alphabet," and then finally, with many additions, became the "Philosophical Dictionary." TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: This text had three occurrences of "Francois I" followed by a superscripted "er". These have be rendered as Francois Ier in this text. The following words used an "oe" ligature in the original: foetus manoeuvre oesophagus Phoenicia Phoenicians subpoenaed Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. There is one occurrence of "Vistnou" and one of "Vitsnou". One of these is clearly an error, but each has been left as in the original. The symbol representing infinity has been replaced with the word "infinity" on page 316, the last line of the text. The following corrections have been made to the original text: page 17: Nestor, in the "Iliad," wishing to insinuate himself as a wise conciliator into the minds of Achilles and Agamemnon{original had "Agamamemnon"}, page 40: Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent persons, and superstition{original had "superstitution"} is the vice of fools. page 42: if it is a greater crime not to believe in the Deity{original had "Diety"} than to have unworthy opinions thereof: page 54: They will say as much of the great moral maxims, of Zarathustra's--"In doubt if an{original had "in"} action be just, abstain..."; page 58: What time and what trouble for copying correctly in Greek and Latin the works of Origen{original had "Origin"}, of Clement of Alexandria, and of all those other authors called "fathers."