erwards established himself in the canton of
Neufchatel.]

[Footnote 3104: "Journal de la Republique Francaise" No.98, description
of "l'Ami du peuple" by himself.]

[Footnote 3105: Read his novel "Les Aventures du jeune comte Potowski,"
letter 5, by Lucile: "I think of Potowski only. My imagination, inflamed
at the torch of love, ever presents to me his sweet image." Letter of
Potowski after his marriage. "Lucile now grants to love all that modesty
permits... enjoying such transports of bliss, I believe that the gods
are jealous of my lot."]

[Footnote 3106: Preface, XX. "Descartes, Helvetius, Haller, Lelat all
ignored great principles; Man, with them, is an enigma, an impenetrable
secret." He says in a foot-note, "We find evidence of this in the works
of Hume, Voltaire, Bonnet, Racine and Pascal."]

[Footnote 3107: "Memoires Academiques sur la Lumiere," pref., VII.--He
especially opposes "the differential refrangibility of heterogeneous
rays" which is "the basis of Newton's theory."]

[Footnote 3108: Chevremont, I., 74. (See the testimony of Arago, Feb.24,
1844).]

[Footnote 3109: Ibid., I., 104. (Sketch of a declaration of the rights
of man and of the citizen).]

[Footnote 3110: See the epigraph of his "Memoires sur la Lumiere."
"They will force their way against wind and tide."--Ibid., preface, VII.
"Deconvertes de Monsieur Marat," 1780, 2nd ed., p. 140.]

[Footnote 3111: "Recherches physiques sur l'electricite," 1782, pp.13,
17.]

[Footnote 3112: Chevremont, I., 59.]

[Footnote 3113: "De l'Homme," preface VII. and book IV.]

[Footnote 3114: "Journal de la Republique Francaise," No 98.]

[Footnote 3115: "Journal de la Republique Francaise," by Marat, No. I.]

[Footnote 3116: "L'Ami du Peuple" No. 173. (July 26, 1790). The memories
of conceited persons, given to immoderate self-expansion, are largely at
fault. I have seen patients in asylums who, believing in their exalted
position, have recounted their successes in about the same vein as
Marat. (Chevremont, I., 40, 47, 54). "The reports of extraordinary cures
effected by me brought me a great crowd of the sick. The street in front
of my door was blocked with carriages. People came to consult me
from all quarters.... The abstract of my experiments on Light finally
appeared and it created a prodigious sensation throughout Europe; the
newspapers were all filled with it. I had the court and the town in my
house for six months.... The Academy, finding tha