Note 4 — Chapter I · Illustrations of Belief in Magic in Mediæval and in Early Modern Times
Reading edition
République, book iv, ch. 2, cited by W. E. H. Lecky, History of Rationalism (1900), vol. i, p. 28. The chapter upon “Magic and Witchcraft” contains considerable material bearing upon our theme. A similar attitude to that of Bodin is found in a political treatise of about the year 1300, probably written by Pierre du Bois, where an argument for the universal rule of a French monarch is based on astrology. N. de Wailly, Mémoire sur un opuscule anonyme (Mémoires de l’Institut Impérial de France), vol. xviii, pt. ii, p. 442.