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← ExitThe Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume I

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September 14.

How many precautions one must take to avoid saying the last word first!

August 9.

That we have the idea of innate ideas — since the word idea is not devoid of sense — or of a meaning easy to conceive and clear.

August 11.

Let us take great care not to make a proposition of what is a precept, rule, commandment.

August 10.

If he does not have a very beautiful and well-tempered mind, we shall not even examine his reasons. (J.’s is very beautiful, but it is not well tempered.)

... speak to God and treat with him as power with power.

August 14.

What are the first organic parts formed in the abnormal. Six cavities. The liver is an offshoot of the blood, an excrescence. That was Hervey’s opinion. Hervey had made many observations on the formation of the chick in the egg. (To compare them with Haller’s.)

August 16.

Locke admits the inner sense.

Geese: living boats.

August 18.

Our ideas are composed of shadows and clarities, obscurities and lights, like our paintings. — So that one could say our most subtle ideas form by evaporation, an operation that never takes place in certain minds.

Certainly cold does not come simply from the absence of fire or heat, as darkness comes from the mere absence of light. Cold has activity, it penetrates, it [ ], it tears.

Our nerves are the bowstring from which thought is shot. One feels this distinctly through etc.

Saturday, August […] [deep in the woods].

It is through their imperceptible parts that all perceptible things without exception act on our senses. — Without exception? — Yes, without exception. — Even those that act on touch? — Even those that act on touch. For, although there is contact with the surface and consequently with a perceptible part, it nevertheless makes itself felt only etc.

T132.The native facsimile reads déjourvu, with j, where dépourvu would be expected. English devoid follows that contextual reading; the anomalous French is retained.

T133.J. is not expanded to a name. Well tempered preserves tempéré in the appraisal of the mind.

T134.The plural verbs remain without an expressed subject. As power with power renders de puissance à puissance and preserves the image of negotiating powers.

T135.The native facsimile prints l’anormal, divided anor-/mal across the line, where the context would suggest l’animal. The English retains the abnormal as the printed reading; the intended word remains unresolved. Hervey’s name and the historical account of the liver and embryonic chick remain as stated.

T136.Shadows and clarities, obscurities and lights preserve both pairs, and evaporation retains the physical image for subtle ideas.

T137.The blank brackets remain empty. Cold’s activity and tearing are retained as the source states them.

T138.Bowstring retains corde de l’arc and shot retains décochée. The final through etc. leaves the means of experiencing it unstated.

T139.Imperceptible and perceptible render insensibles and sensibles in relation to the senses. The repeated question and answer remain. The final only etc. keeps the incomplete restriction without supplying an explanation.

T242.The date's day is lost. Initial letters of sans, exception, celles, la surface, and the cependant continuation are restored at the damaged left edge.