Everywhere he recommends them to insist on a firm and distinct method in their contributors--etymologies, definitions, examples, reasons, clearness, brevity.

"You are badly seconded," he writes; "there are bad soldiers in the army of a great general."[119] "I am sorry to see that the writer of the article _Hell_ declares that hell was a point in the doctrine of Moses; now by all the devils that is not true.

Why lie about it?
Hell is an excellent thing, to be sure, but it is evident that Moses did not know it.

'Tis this world that is hell."[120] D'Alembert in reply always admitted the blemishes for which the patriarch and master reproached them, but urged various pleas in extenuation.

He explains that Diderot is not always the master, either to reject or to prune the articles that are offered to him.[121] A writer who happened to be useful for many excellent articles would insist as the price of good work that they should find room for his bad work also; and so forth.