10.) Passages to the same effect occur in Malebranche, Arnauld, and Nicole.

(See Bouillier, Histoire de la philosophie cartesienne, i.

482-3.) A passage in La Mothe Le Vayer's essay Sur l'opiniatrete in Orasius Tubero (ii.

218) is in point, if, as seems probable, the date of that work is 1632-33.

"Some defer to the ancients and allow themselves to be led by them like children; others hold that the ancients lived in the youth of the world, and it is those who live to-day who are really the ancients, and consequently ought to carry most weight." See Rigault, Histoire de la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, p.