philosophical import of the word.

[116] _On the Origin of Species._

[117] Caro, _L'Idée de Dieu_, page 47.

[118] _Force et Matière_, page 181.

[119] The Büchner proceeding is found again pretty exactly in _Les
Mondes_ of M. Amédée Guillemin. This writer affirms (page 60 of the
third edition) that science does not approach metaphysical questions;
and asserts in the same page, ten lines further on, that astronomical
experience leads our reason to the idea of _the eternity of the
universe_. After that, he may laugh, if he will, at _lovers of the
absolute_.

[120] See in particular the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, passim.

[121] S'enivrait en marchant du plaisir de la voir.

[122] See the lecture above mentioned.

[123] _Lettres sur les Etats-Unis d'Amérique_, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Ferri Pisani, page 400.--Letter of 25 Sept. 1861.

[124] On the origin of species, in the _Archives des sciences de la
Bibliothèque universelle_, March, 1860.

[125] Vous coulez des moucherons.