The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis

...new Philosophy. Since their intention is good, and as all this tends only toward continuing the plan of our Reformation In this context, "Reformation" refers to a general intellectual and philosophical overhaul of the Church's foundations rather than the Protestant Reformation specifically., I would be grateful to them if they did not do two things. The first is to attribute to Descartes the glory of an invention that belongs to my Great-great-grandfather The speaker uses the archaic French term "Trifayeul." and to me. And the second is that they take as gospel The original French idiom "prendre pour argent comptant" literally means "to take as ready cash," or to accept something without questioning its value. all the daydreams that Descartes added of his own accord, which are nevertheless perfectly suited to completely ruining Christian Morality, if it were not already ruined.

    They are quite wrong on both these points, I said to him; but I am not skilled enough to untangle what Descartes mixed of his own with the speculations of your Great-great-grandfather Giordano Bruno original: Jordanus Brunus. Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian friar and philosopher famous for his theories on the infinity of the universe; he was burned at the stake for heresy., whose Works I never read. I do not even know the Philosophy of Descartes well enough to discern what there might be that is so contrary to good morals. What Descartes took from us, he replied, is good and suited to...