39/116 294.] [Footnote 34: _Pensees Philosophiques. 128, 129.] [Footnote 35: _Oeuv._, xix.87.Grimm, Supp. 148.] [Footnote 36: Volney, in a book that was famous in its day, _Les Ruines, ou Meditation sur les revolutions des empires_ (1791), resorted to a slight difference of method. Instead of leaving the pretensions of the various creeds to cancel one another, he invented a rather striking scene, in which the priests of each creed are made to listen to the professions of their rival, and then inveigh against his superstition and inconsistency. |