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Nouvelles libertés de Penser, Amsterdam, 1743; cf. J. O'Higgins, S.J., Anthony Collins, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1970, pp. 216-17. Cf.. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Making Sense in Life and Literature, Theory and History of Literature, vol. 79, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1992, pp. 138-39; here the author assumes that the writer of Le Philosophe must be speaking out of a French context. See the discussion in my The Radical Enlightenment, London, 1981, p. 217. The evidence for Dumarsais as author is good but not conclusive; see A.W. Fairbairn, "Dumarsais and Le Philosophe," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. lxxxvii, 1972, pp.375-95; and Olivier Bloch, ed. Le Matérialisme du xviiie siècle et la litterature clandestine, Paris, Librairie Vrin, 1982, pp. 179-81 where once again the manuscript is reassigned to a Dutch context.