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LETTERS OF HELVÉTIUS.

LETTER I.

TO VOLTAIRE.

It is with the greatest gratitude, my illustrious master, that I received your letter original: "épître", and with the greatest pleasure that I read it. I am going to put your lessons into practice. I am sending the hypocrites original: "cagots" of Paris packing, and I am leaving for the countryside, where I shall lead my own sheep to pasture. I am retreating this year to Lumigny, to an estate I own near Rosay-en-Brie.

My soul is saddened by all the persecutions that are rising against the