Pierre Des Maizeaux

From SHAFTESBURY AND THE FRENCH DEISTS, 1956 by Dorothy Schlegel

In 1720 there appeared in Amsterdam a book edited by the refugee Pierre Des Maizeaux . . . entitled Recueil de diverses pièces sur la philosophie, la religion naturell, l'histoire, les mathématiques, &c., par Messieurs Leibnitz, Clarke, Newton, et autres auteurs célèbres . . (etc).¹⁰ [which] contains two selections on the works of Shaftesbury written by none other than the famous German philosopher Leibniz before his death in 1716.. One of the articles is entitle "Remarques sur . . . la Lettre sur l'enthousiasme," and the other, "Jugement sur les oeuvres de M. le Comte de Shaftesbury."¹¹'        
' . . the German not only called The Moralists the "Sacrarium de la plus sublime philosophie,"¹² but reached the acme of praise when he admitted that the outstanding features of his own theories . . . which had appeared in his Théodicée in 1710, had been anticipated by Shaftesbury in The Moralists in 1709. [Note 13].'

      ¹⁰ \Benjamin Rand, The Life, Unpublished Letters and the Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1900)\, pp. xxv-xxvi, n. 2.
      ¹¹ Alfred Owen Aldridge, Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto ("Transactions of the American Philosophical Society" [Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society, 1951]), XLI\, p. 372.
      ¹² \Ennemond Casati, "Hé:rauts et continuateurs de Shaftesbury en France," FLC, XIV (1934)\, XIV, 634-635. See also pp. 622, 624-625.
      ¹³ Pierre Des Maizeaux, Recueil de diverses pièces par M. Leibnitz (Amsterdam : 1720), II, 283, quoted in \Thomas Fowler, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882)\, p. 27.

SHAFTESBURY AND THE FRENCH DEISTS,
by Dorothy B. Schlegel.
Chapel Hill, N. C. : University of North Carolina Press 1956, pp. 8-9 (etc).