Posthumous Works

NOTICE

way of seeing and grasping things;
and, like a skilled physician, you
have disguised the remedy I
needed under a pleasant covering
which alone could decide me to
make use of it.

May the God of mercies be forever
blessed for sending you so
appropriately to my aid, to stop
me on the edge of precipices; he
allowed the passion for reading
to finally lead me to read your
works. I did not have much desire
for them; I thought I knew everything.
I had made for myself an insufficient
system, but one to which I held
as we hold to all our productions,
however mediocre they may be.
The new lights, the sublime thoughts,
the whole and the connection of things,
the true goal of la science science or knowledge
that I discovered in this new study,
have quite disillusioned me regarding
those I had done until then. I will
ceaselessly render thanks to the
divine sentiment that animated your
heart, and which guided your pen in the re-