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whom you refute from a criticifm on M. Needham. 

 It appears that M- de Reaumur valued this work 

 ef his friend the Abbe; he fent me a copy with 

 many requefts to read it. His method does not 

 pkafe me : His criticifm on M. Needham and 

 de Buffon is loofe and injudicious. Several 

 points, however, are well founded; but he is 

 Neither philofopker nor obferver enough to treat 

 fueh matters fkilfuUy. His theological fentiments 

 often feem to fpoil his philofophical. Some years 

 afterwards, this fame Abbe de Lignae undertook 

 tiie refutation of fome metaphyfical works, and 

 particularly the Effai de Pfychologie, whofe author 

 you may one day enquire for of me. I can well 

 srifure you that the refuter has never underftood 

 this eifay : all his objedions are falfe ; he cen- 

 iiires the author every where; and what 'Us ftiil 

 more ftrange, he puts a confeffion of faith in his 

 mouth, the moft abfurd and oppofite to the au- 

 thor's real fentiments. He prints it in Italic cha- 

 raders, as if the pfychologift's own expreffions. 

 The title of this refutation, Le temoignage dufens 

 intime et de r experience, oppofe a la fii profane et 

 ridicule des Fatalijies modernes, 3 torn. 12. So he 

 claiTes the pfychologift among the modern fata- 

 Ufts, whofe creed is profane and ridiculous. I 

 have not underftood that this abfurd pfychologift 

 Tjver thought of anfwering his keen and inconfi- 

 dcrate adverfary. Doubtkfs he has. conceived 



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