Note 3 — ANSWER TO THE DISSERTATION OF MONSIEUR DE LA MONNOYE ON THE WORK ENTITLED “THE THREE IMPOSTORS.”
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In the sixth and last Chapter of seven paragraphs, he discourses on the Spirits called Demons, and shows the origin and falsity of the opinions as to their existence.—Such is the anatomy of this celebrated work. I might have given it in a manner more extended and more minute; but besides that this letter is already too long, I think that enough has been said to give insight into the nature of its contents. A thousand other reasons which you will well enough understand, have prevented me from entering upon it to so great a length as I could have done; “Est modus in rebus.3”