CHAPTER I

REMARKABLE AUTHORS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Important discoveries in China—The _Y-Kim_ of Fo-hi—Legend of its origin—Connection with the Zohar—An example of absolute philosophy—Opinion of Leibnitz—Emmanuel Swedenborg—His system and its Kabalistic derivation—The discovery of Mesmer—Its theory and its great importance—A comparison between Voltaire and Mesmer 391