327.
For special points of interest in Bayle's arguments, see his Pensees Diverses sur les Cometes, Amsterdam, 1749, pp.

79, 102, 134, 206.

For the response to Jurieu, see the continuation des Pensees, Rotterdam, 1705; also Champion, p.

164, Lecky, ubi supra, and Guillemin, pp.

29, 30.
This great philosophic champion of right reason was followed by a literary champion hardly less famous; for Fontenelle now gave to the French theatre his play of The Comet, and a point of capital importance in France was made by rendering the army of ignorance ridiculous.( 118) (118) See Fontenelle, cited by Champion, p.