Note 358 — Chapter IX
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
M. Flourens, in saying that Buffon collected the accounts of different travellers in order to write his Histoire des Races, adds, “Whatever they have only seen with the eyes of their body, he sees with the eyes of his mind, and by that means alone he sees better than they can; each of them has seen merely some scattered characteristics,—Buffon sees everything; he links together whatever they may have separated, and separates whatever they have confounded.”—Histoire des Idées de Buffon, p. 167.