Complete Works of Helvétius

For me, I accept the omen,
Happy to see the author of the painting
In the model of the tableau.

I am, with extreme consideration and the most inviolable attachment, etc., etc.,

LETTER V.

Helvétius to the Marquis of ***.

I have received, sir, upon arriving at my estate, the new works on agriculture that you sent me. The observations they contain are undoubtedly very good as a collection of physical observations; but if one looks at them as being of immediate utility to France, one is mistaken.