M.
Lamennais, who renders glory to God in beautiful songs, does not know how as well to render justice to his fellows.

His fatal fault is this appropriation of knowledge, which the theologians call the PHILOSOPHICAL SIN, or the SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST--a sin which will not damn you, proletaires, nor me either.
In short, "L'Esquisse," judged as a system, and divested of all which its author borrows from previous systems, is a commonplace work, whose method consists in constantly explaining the known by the unknown, and in giving entites for abstractions, and tautologies for proofs.

Its whole theodicy is a work not of genius but of imagination, a patching up of neo-Platonic ideas.

The psychological portion amounts to nothing, M.Lamennais openly ridiculing labors of this character, without which, however, metaphysics is impossible.

The book, which treats of logic and its methods, is weak, vague, and shallow.