This brought the work down to Gyromancy and Gythiuin.

Then there arose storms and divisions which marked a memorable epoch alike in the history of the book, in the life of Diderot and others, and in the thought of the century.

The progress of the work in popularity during the five years between 1752 and 1757 had been steady and unbroken.

The original subscribers were barely two thousand.

When the fourth volume appeared, there were three thousand.