 
We declare to the scholars that, being like them prodigiously ignorant about the first principles of all things, and about the natural, typical, mystic, allegorical sense of many things, we refer these things to the infallible judgment of the Holy Inquisition of Rome, Florence, Madrid, Lisbon, and to the decrees of the Sorbonne of Paris, perpetual council of the Gauls. Our errors springing in no wise from malice, but being the natural consequence of human frailty, we hope that they will be pardoned to us in this world and the other. We beseech the small number of heavenly spirits who are still shut up in France in mortal bodies, and who, from there, enlighten the universe at thirty sous the sheet, to communicate their luminousness to us for the tenth volume which we reckon on publishing at the end of Lent 1772, or in Advent 1773; and for their luminousness we will pay forty sous. This tenth volume will contain some very curious articles, which, if God favours us, will give new point to the salt which we shall endeavour to bestow in the thanks we shall give to these gentlemen. Executed on Mount Krapack, the thirtieth day of the month of Janus, the year of the world
FOOTNOTES: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: The following corrections have been made to the original text: page 17: Nestor, in the "Iliad," wishing to insinuate himself as a wise conciliator into the minds of Achilles and Agamemnon{original had "Agamamemnon"}, page 40: Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent persons, and superstition{original had "superstitution"} is the vice of fools. page 42: if it is a greater crime not to believe in the Deity{original had "Diety"} than to have unworthy opinions thereof: page 54: They will say as much of the great moral maxims, of Zarathustra's—"In doubt if an{original had "in"} action be just, abstain..."; page 58: What time and what trouble for copying correctly in Greek and Latin the works of Origen{original had "Origin"}, of Clement of Alexandria, and of all those other authors called "fathers." page 101: we shall be convinced that we must not be vain about anything, and yet we shall always{original had "aways"} have vanity. page 128: All that certain tyrants{original had "tryants"} of the souls desire is that the men they teach shall have false judgment. page 166: and to surround him with little chubby, flushed faces accompanied{original had "accompained"} by two wings; I laugh and I pardon them with all my heart. page 171: And an unfortunate{original had "unforunate"} idiot, who had had enough courage to render very great services to the king page 220: Try to retake from the Mohammedans all that they usurped; but it is easier to calumniate{original had "calcumniate"} them. pafe 224: It was allowed among the Egyptians{original had "Egyptains"}, the Athenians and even among the Jews, to marry one's sister on the father's side. page 251: Your parents have told you that you should bow before this man; you respect him before knowing whether he merits your respect;{original had colon} you grow in years and in knowledge; page 280: (Corporalitas animÆ in ipso Evangelio relucescit, De Anima,{original had period} cap. vii.) page 295: "She soon became a monarchy, then,{original had period}" said the Brahmin. page 315: we refer these things to the infallible{original had "infallable"} judgment of the Holy Inquisition of Rome, Florence, Madrid, Lisbon, |
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