Copyright, 1910
By P. F. COLLIER & SON

Copyright, 1889

BY PETER ECKLER

MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON
AND SEEKING THE TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

BY RENÉ DESCARTES

LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH-BY VOLTAIRE

Letter I-On the Quakers

Letter II-On the Quakers

Letter III-On the Quakers

Letter IV-On the Quakers

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5

12

21

28

35

49

Letter V-On the Church of England

Letter VI-On the Presbyterians

Letter VII-On the Socinians, or Arians, or Antitrinitarians

Letter VIII-On the Parliament

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78

81

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85

Letter XVII-On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton's
Chronology

Letter XX-On Such of the Nobility as Cultivate the Belles
Lettres

Letter XXI-On the Earl of Rochester and Mr. Waller
Letter XXII-On Mr. Pope and Some Other Famous Poets
Letter XXIII-On the Regard That Ought to be Shown to Men
of Letters.

Letter XXIV-On the Royal Society and Other Academies

154

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A DISCOURSE UPON THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE
INEQUALITY AMONG MANKIND

165

Chapter I-Of Sense

Chapter II-Of Imagination

311

Chapter III-Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations

313

318

Chapter IV Of Speech

Chapter V-Of Reason and Science

322

330

Chapter VI-Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions,

Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which

They Are Expressed.

Chapter VII-Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse

336

Chapter VIII-Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual,
and Their Contrary Defects

346

Chapter IX-Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge .

349

Chapter X-Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthi-

359

Chapter XIV-Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of
Contracts

Chapter XIII-Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Con-
cerning Their Felicity and Misery.

387

Chapter XV-Of Other Laws of Nature

391

401

Chapter XVI-Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

413