Philosophical Dictionary (Vol. 2)

occasion. Young Jarika, a pretty Carib, saves his life and finally flees with him to Barbados. As soon as they arrive there, Inkle goes to sell his benefactress at the market. "Ah, ingrate! Ah, barbarian!" says Jarika to him, "you want to sell me, and I am pregnant by you!" "You are pregnant," the English merchant replies, "so much the better; I will sell you for more."

This is what they give us as a true story, as the origin of a long war. The speech of a girl from Boston to her judges, who were sentencing her to correction for the fifth time because she had given birth to a fifth child, is a joke, a pamphlet by the illustrious Franklin, and it is reported in the same work as an authentic document. How many tales have adorned and disfigured all histories!

In a book that has caused much stir (1), and in which one finds reflections as true as they are profound, it is stated that Father Malebranche is the author of Physical Premotion original: "Prémotion physique". This oversight embarrasses more than one reader who would like to have the physical premotion of Father Malebranche, and who would seek it in vain.

It is stated in that book that Galileo found the reason why pumps could not raise water above thirty-two feet. This is precisely what Galileo did not find. He saw well that the weight of the air caused the water to rise, but he could not know why this air no longer acted above

(1) The Book of the Spirit original: "Le livre de l'Esprit".