PREFACE.

The importance of the love of truth. Why, alongside the Encyclopedist A contributor to the famous 18th-century "Encyclopédie" edited by Diderot and d’Alembert., author of the article on Eclecticism A philosophical method of selecting the best doctrines from various systems rather than adhering to a single school of thought., Mr. Brucker Johann Jakob Brucker (1696–1770), a German historian whose "Historia Critica Philosophiae" was a primary source for the Encyclopedists. is also attacked in several places in this work. How little the Encyclopedist respected the truth. Proofs of this accusation.

OF all the sentiments that nature inspires, there is none that one should cultivate with more care than the love of truth. This precious gift contains the seed of every virtue; I might add, and of all true talents. Great men we— The text breaks off mid-word "furent" (were), to be continued on the following page.