30.] [Footnote 5: _Wahlverwandschaften_, pt.ii.ch.vii.The reader will do well to consult the philosophical estimate of the function of the man of letters given by Comte, _Philosophie Positive_, v.

512, vi.

192, 287.
The best contemporary account of the principles and policy of the men of letters in the eighteenth century is to be found in Condorcet's _Esquisse d'un Tableau, etc._, pp.

187-189 (ed.

1847).] [Footnote 6: Naigeon, p.