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NOTES 



1 In the chapter headed 'Pourquoi reclecticisme a-t-il reussi?' (Why Did 

 Eclecticism Succeed?). Since this is clearly marked 'Conclusion', the two 

 chapters 'On Method' must be thought of as a kind of appendix. 



2 'The double meaning of the word destiny.'' — Taine's note. 



3 Les Philosophes classiques, pp. 290-293, our italics. 



4 Ibid., p. 297. 



5 Ibid., p. 299. 



6 Ibid., p. 300. 



7 Quoted by Rosea, U Influence de Hegel sur Taine, p. 338. 



8 F. <2? C, I, 157 (18 November, 185 1). 



9 F. <2? C, I, 321-322 (January, 1853) and 323. 



Rosea, op. cit., pp. 339-340, Note 3. 



1 Ibid., pp. 341, 346. 

 '2 Essai sur Tite-Live, p. 226. 

 t3 V. & C, II, 44. 

 ^4 V. & a, II, 44. 



^^ V. & C, II, 46-47, Taine's italics. 

 16 V. & C, II, 48. 

 i7F. &C., 11,72 (2 July, 1854). 



18 V. & C, II, 63-67. 



19 V. & C, II, 65. 



20 V. & C, II, 59. 



21 F. & C, II, 62. 



22 History of English Literature, II, 575. 



23 /^iW., p. 572, Note, quoting from Taine's Preface to the book edition: Le 

 Positivisme anglais, 1864. Mill added the following criticism: 'But I think you 

 are wrong in regarding the views I adopt as especially English. They were so 

 in the first half of the eighteenth century, from the time of Locke to that of the 

 reaction against Hume. . . . When I wrote my book, I stood almost alone in 

 my opinions . . .' (ibid.). 



24 Ibid., p. 580. 



25 Ibid., p. 593. 



26 Ibid., p. 599, Note 2. 



27 Ibid., p. 605, our italics. 



28 Ibid., p. 606. 



29 Ibid., p. 607. 



30 Taine's development of his theory of abstraction involves him in a 

 number of concepts which require further elucidation and criticism, but which 

 have already been encountered in Chapter II: (i) The concept of 'real defini- 

 tions' of 'essences' (Chapter II, 20, and Appendix A, 'Criticisms of Descartes 

 and Aristotle'). (2) A theory of proof as concerned with causes and laws: 

 'Syllogism does not proceed from the particular to the particular, as Mill says, 

 nor from the general to the particular, as the ordinary logicians teach, but 

 from the abstract to the concrete; that is to say, from cause to effect' {History 

 of English Literature, II, 610; cf. our Chapter II, 44). (3) A theory of axioms as 

 all involving, by means of analysis and abstraction, the basic axiom of identity 

 (Chapter II, 21, and Appendix A, 'The "External Axiom'"). (4) A theory of 



