;
see, too, Cuvier's _Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du
globe_, ed.
see, too, Cuvier's _Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du
globe_, ed.
Byron
vi.
pp.
569-678.
) Compare
the following passage from _Dieu et les Hommes_ (_OEuvres, etc. _, de
Voltaire, 1837, vi. 236, chap. xx. ): "Notre Warburton s'est epuise a
ramasser dans son fatras de la Divine legation, toutes les preuves que
l'auteur du _Pentateuque_, n'a jamais parle d'une vie a venir, et il n'a
pas eu grande peine; mais il en tire une plaisante conclusion, et digne
d'un esprit aussi faux que le sien. "]
[95] {210}[See _Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles_, par M. le B^on^
G. Cuvier, Paris, 1821, i. , "Discours Preliminaire," pp. iv. , vii; and
for the thesis, "Il n'y a point d'os humaines fossiles," see p. lxiv.
;
see, too, Cuvier's _Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du
globe_, ed. 1825, p. 282: "Si l'on peut en juger par les differens
ordres d'animaux dont on y trouve les depouilles, ils avaient peut-etre
subi jusqu' a deux ou trois irruptions de la mer. " It is curious to note
that Moore thought that Cuvier's book was "a most desolating one in the
conclusions to which it may lead some minds" (_Life_, p. 554). ]
[96] {211}[Alfieri's _Abele_ was included in his _Opere inediti_,
published by the Countess of Albany and the Abbe Calma in 1804.
"In a long Preface . . . dated April 25, 1796, Alfieri gives a curious
account of the reasons which induced him to call it . . . 'Tramelogedy. '
He says that _Abel_ is neither a tragedy, a comedy, a drama, a
tragi-comedy, nor a Greek tragedy, which last would, he thinks, be
correctly described as melo-tragedy. Opera-tragedy would, in his
opinion, be a fitting name for it; but he prefers interpolating the word
'melo' into the middle of the word 'tragedy,' so as not to spoil the
ending, although by so doing he has cut in two . .
the following passage from _Dieu et les Hommes_ (_OEuvres, etc. _, de
Voltaire, 1837, vi. 236, chap. xx. ): "Notre Warburton s'est epuise a
ramasser dans son fatras de la Divine legation, toutes les preuves que
l'auteur du _Pentateuque_, n'a jamais parle d'une vie a venir, et il n'a
pas eu grande peine; mais il en tire une plaisante conclusion, et digne
d'un esprit aussi faux que le sien. "]
[95] {210}[See _Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles_, par M. le B^on^
G. Cuvier, Paris, 1821, i. , "Discours Preliminaire," pp. iv. , vii; and
for the thesis, "Il n'y a point d'os humaines fossiles," see p. lxiv.
;
see, too, Cuvier's _Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du
globe_, ed. 1825, p. 282: "Si l'on peut en juger par les differens
ordres d'animaux dont on y trouve les depouilles, ils avaient peut-etre
subi jusqu' a deux ou trois irruptions de la mer. " It is curious to note
that Moore thought that Cuvier's book was "a most desolating one in the
conclusions to which it may lead some minds" (_Life_, p. 554). ]
[96] {211}[Alfieri's _Abele_ was included in his _Opere inediti_,
published by the Countess of Albany and the Abbe Calma in 1804.
"In a long Preface . . . dated April 25, 1796, Alfieri gives a curious
account of the reasons which induced him to call it . . . 'Tramelogedy. '
He says that _Abel_ is neither a tragedy, a comedy, a drama, a
tragi-comedy, nor a Greek tragedy, which last would, he thinks, be
correctly described as melo-tragedy. Opera-tragedy would, in his
opinion, be a fitting name for it; but he prefers interpolating the word
'melo' into the middle of the word 'tragedy,' so as not to spoil the
ending, although by so doing he has cut in two . .
