ABSTRACT
Be it most humbly represented to these gentlemen that however great the efforts made by the French nation for many years now to accustom its reason to bend to the wantonness of their fancy, it has not been completely able to succeed. Wherefore these gentlemen are supplicated to be so obliging as to observe henceforward certain simple rules dictated by good sense, from which we cannot hear the principles of our understanding. It would be a very noble act on the part of these gentlemen if they would condescend to our weakness and pardon us the real impossibility in which we find ourselves of turning off all the lights of our reasoning faculty out of politeness to them.
