442 ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE. 



the subject, but from its brevity it would be far less intelligible 

 than even those writings. 



Substitutions. Condorcet maintains that a State has the autho- 

 rity to change the laws of succession to property ; but when such 

 changes are made the rights which existed under the old laws 

 should be valued and compensation made for them. In this article 

 Condorcet professes to estimate the amount of compensation. The 

 formulae however are printed in such an obscure and repulsive 

 manner that it would be very difficult to determine whether they 

 are correct ; and certainly the attempt to examine them would be 

 a waste of time and labour. 



824. It should be observed that in the Encydopedie Metlio- 

 dique various threats are uttered which are never carried into 

 execution. Thus in the article Assurances we are referred to 

 Evenemens and to Societe ; and in the article Prohabilite we are 

 referred to Verite and to Votans. Any person who is acquainted 

 with Condorcet's writings will consider it fortunate that no articles 

 are to be found under the titles here named. 



825. The only important article connected with our subject 

 in the Encydopedie Metliodique is that under the title Milieu, 

 which we will now proceed to notice. The article is by John 

 Bernoulli, the same person, we presume, whom we have noticed 

 in Arts. 598 and 624. 



The article gives an account of two memoirs which it asserts 

 had not then been printed. The article says : 



Le premier memoire dont je me propose de doiiner I'extrait, est un 

 petit ecrit latin de M. Daniel Bernoulli, qu'il me communiqua, en 

 1769, et qu'il gardoit depuis long-tems parmi ses manuscrits dans le 

 dessein sans doute de I'ctendre davantage. II a pour titre : Dijudicatio 

 niaxime j^'^ohahilis plurium ohservationimi discrepmitiu^n ; atque verisi- 

 niillima inductio inde formanda. 



The title is the same as that of the memoir which we have 

 noticed in Art. 424 ; but this article Milieu gives an account of 

 the memoir which does not correspond with what we find in the 

 Acta Acad..,.Petrop., so we conclude that Daniel Bernoulli modi- 

 fied his memoir before publishing it. 



