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NOTES 



1 In a letter to Victor Giraud, 1891, printed in Giraud's Hippolyte Taine: 

 Etudes et Documents, pp. 81-83. Quote on p. 82, our italics. 



2 See, especially, Chapters I and V. 



3 Taine, 'La faculte maitresse'. Chapter III, Part V. 



4 Notes of 1850 {ibid., p. 399). 



5 Notes of 1 85 1 {ibid.). 



6 Cf. Appendix A, 'Historical and Natural Science'. 



7 Cf. Appendix A, 'Taine's Doctoral Theses'. 



8 See the discussion in the Life and Letters {V. & C, II, 2-4). A detailed out- 

 line of the projected book has survived {ibid., pp. 377-380). 



9 Vol. I, X. 



10 The theory of 'master faculty' occurs in Frederick Schlegel's Philosophy of 

 History (1829) as 'vorherrschende und iiberwiegende . . . Seelen-Vermogen'; 

 a French version of Schlegel's work (1836) translated this passage as 'la faculte 

 souveraine' (Giraud, Essai sur Taine, p. 29, Note i). Also, Giraud traces many 

 of Taine's ideas on philosophy of history in the Livy to the Introduction and 

 Part III of Hegel's Philosophy of History {ibid., pp. 28-29, Note 3). Of course, 

 the idea of a 'ruling' or 'master passion' is very old. 



11 Cf. our Chapter II, p. 17. 



12 V. & a, II, 379. 



13 Les Philosophes classiques, p. 369, our italics. 



14 Ibid., p. 44 and ff. 



15 History of English Literature, I, 9. 



16 Ibid., 18-19, our italics. 



i'7 See quotation in 'Selected Bibliography'. 



18 V. & C, II, 378, our italics. 



19 Ibid., p. 379, our italics. 



20 See 'France and the Development of Abnormal Psychology', Chapter XII, 

 Part III, in J. C. Flugel's A Hundred Tears of Psychology. During later years, 

 Taine kept in touch with developments in psychology. His correspondence 

 includes references to Ribot and Binet; and during his visit to England, in 

 May, 1 87 1, he writes about discussions with 'Mr. Bain, the latter a "sharp 

 and acute" Scotsman; I had a chat with him on the progress which remains to 

 be made in psychology; it seems that he and Mr. Grote have been correspond- 

 ing all winter about my Intelligence' {V. & C, III, 127-128). 



21 On Intelligence, II, 288. 



22 Ibid., I, 81. A footnote refers to Darwin: 'The theory of the great English 

 naturalist is nowhere more precisely applicable than in psychology.' 



23 Ibid., I, 97. 



24 Ibid., I, 196. . 



25 Ibid., I, 201. 



26 Ibid., I, 204. 



27 Ibid., I, 207. 



28 Ibid., I, 211. 

 29/6i^., I, 215. 



30 Ibid., I, 224. 



31 Ibid., II, 17, Taine's italics. 



