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NOTES. 



( I ) il^ reafon could do nothings &c. God has beftowed on me 

 this diflinguiflied mark of his favour, that whatever diforder my 

 reafon may have undergone, I have never loft the ufe of it, in 

 my own apprehenfion, and efpecially in the eyes of other men. 

 As foon as I felt the fymptoms of my indifpofition, I retired into 

 folitude. What was, then, that extraordinary reafon, which in- 

 timated to me that my ordinary reafon was difturbed ? I am 

 tempted to believe, that there is in our foul an unchangeable fo- 

 cus of intelleélual light, which no darknefs is able entirely to 

 overpower. It is, I am of opinion, this fevforium which admo> 

 nifties the drunk man that his reafon is over-elevated, and the 

 failing old man, that his underftanding is enfeebled. In order 

 to behold the fliining of that candle within us, a man rauft have 

 his paffions ftilled, he muft be in folitude, and, above all, he mufl 

 be in the habit of retiring into himfelf. I confider this intimate 

 fentiment of our intelleftual funélions, as the very elTence of our 

 foul, and a proof of it's immateriality. 



(2) T--WO celebrated Phyficions. Doctor Roux^ Author of the 

 Journal of Medicine, and Dodor Buqitet, Profeflbr of the Fa- 

 culty of Medicine at Paris : who both died, in the very prime of 

 life, of their own remedies againft the nervous diforder. 



( 3 ) The credit of a perfon ivhom I did not kfioixi. Though I am 

 accuftomed, when occafion requires, to mention by name, in my 

 writings, the perfons who have rendered me any fervice, and to 

 whom I am under eflential obligations, this is neither the time 

 nor the place for it. I am introducing here no memoirs of my 

 life, but thofe which may ferve as a preamble to my Work on 

 Arcadia. 



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