The Book of the Ascent of the Mind

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About this book

This is a digital copy of a work preserved for generations on the shelves of a library before being carefully scanned by Google as part of a project aimed at allowing internet users to discover the world's literary heritage online.

As this book is relatively old, it is no longer protected by copyright law and now belongs to the public domain. The expression "belonging to the public domain" means that the book in question has never been subject to copyright or that its legal rights have expired. The conditions required for a book to fall into the public domain may vary from one country to another. Books free of copyright are links to the past. They are witnesses to the richness of our history, our cultural heritage, and human knowledge, and are too often difficult for the public to access.

Footnotes and other annotations in the margins of the text present in the original volume are included in this file, as a reminder of the long path traveled by the work from the publishing house through the library to finally end up in your hands.

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Google is proud to work in partnership with libraries to digitize works belonging to the public domain and to make them accessible to everyone. These books are indeed the property of all, and we are simply the guardians of this heritage. However, this is a costly project. Consequently, and with a view to continuing the dissemination of these inexhaustible resources, we have taken the necessary steps to prevent potential abuse by third-party commercial sites, notably by establishing technical constraints regarding automated queries.

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About the Google Book Search service

By encouraging research and access to a growing number of books available in many languages, including French, Google wishes to contribute to promoting cultural diversity through Google Book Search. Indeed, the Google Book Search program allows internet users to discover world literary heritage, while helping authors and publishers expand their audience. You can perform research online in the full text of this work at the address http://books.google.com