" Je vois que Tinfluence exercee par les m&nes de Newton est tr^s-
nUisiblo aux progr^s de la science, et je crie de toutes mes forces k mes
contemporains ; il est temps de changer de route, c'est sur la route d
priori qu'il y a, dans ce moment, des d6couverte8 k faire." — lb. p. 161.
By comparing this opinion with that expressed five years before, in the
* Lettres de G-en^ve,' the reader will be able to judge of Saint-Simon's
inconsistency.
18 SAINT-SIMON.
1808. rary merit ; he leaves to professional authors the task
of reproducing his ideas in a systematic form/ For
himself, he writes merely in the character of a gentle-
man, of a descendant of the Comtes of Vermandois,
as the inheritor of the pen of thte Due de Saint-Simon.
