enjoying such transports of bliss, I believe that the gods are jealous of my lot."] [Footnote 3106: Preface, XX.

"Descartes, Helvetius, Haller, Lelat all ignored great principles; Man, with them, is an enigma, an impenetrable secret." He says in a foot-note, "We find evidence of this in the works of Hume, Voltaire, Bonnet, Racine and Pascal."] [Footnote 3107: "Memoires Academiques sur la Lumiere," pref., VII .-- He especially opposes "the differential refrangibility of heterogeneous rays" which is "the basis of Newton's theory."] [Footnote 3108: Chevremont, I., 74.

(See the testimony of Arago, Feb.24, 1844).] [Footnote 3109: Ibid., I., 104.

(Sketch of a declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen).] [Footnote 3110: See the epigraph of his "Memoires sur la Lumiere." "They will force their way against wind and tide."-- Ibid., preface, VII.
"Deconvertes de Monsieur Marat," 1780, 2nd ed., p.

140.] [Footnote 3111: "Recherches physiques sur l'electricite," 1782, pp.13, 17.] [Footnote 3112: Chevremont, I., 59.] [Footnote 3113: "De l'Homme," preface VII.