Preface.

revealed. Obscurities in this or that passage
cannot, on their own, justify this objection.
Yet many of these obscurities vanish, since
the same subject matter appears in so many
different places and in such varied connec-
tions that the attentive investigator can ob-
tain light and certainty on the matter: And
thus, through the assembly of its teachings,
this system attains such a firmness that one
can place full confidence in Anquetil’s
transmission. And as for this present
extract, I can add for everyone’s reassurance
that the purpose for which I studied these
books (it was not merely out of curiosity),
through the many comparisons I made be-
tween these teachings and the various books