Antoine-Louis-Claude DESTUTT DE TRACY (1754–1836), philosoph - Lot 25

Antoine-Louis-Claude DESTUTT DE TRACY (1754–1836), philosopher, leader of the Ideologues. 2 letters, 1806–1809; 1 page in-8 with address, and 1 page in-4. Auteuil, August 30 [1806], to the philosopher Hyacinthe Azaïs. He is going to read Azaïs’s work [Essay on the World]... “Your subject is vast; and I have no doubt that [...] you will teach us many curious things about this strange machine we call the world, which we know only through its relationship to another, much smaller machine—as ridiculous as it is admirable—which is our own”... April 9, 1809. ... “I do believe, as Condillac said, that all truths are one, and that if one knew the first of them all, one would see that the others are contained within it, are merely its consequences, or, as he puts it, merely different translations. But this first truth—who among us will attain it?”...