Volume 5 (of 6) 48/78 The three letters on the history of Corsica are dedicated to Abbe Raynal in a letter of June 24, 1790, and may be found in Yung, I., 434.] [Footnote 1119: Read especially his essay "On the Truths and Sentiments most important to inculcate on Men for their Welfare" (a subject proposed by the Academy of Lyons in 1790). "Some bold men driven by genius.. .. Perfection grows out of reason as fruit out of a tree.... The spectacle of the strength of virtue was what the Lacedaemonians principally felt.... |