⁽¹⁾ Here he differed widely from Maudsley, whose writings clearly show him to have been a scientific materialist, and a direct successor, equipped with modern physiological knowledge, to the French encyclopaedist philosophers, such as d'Holbach and Cabanis; himself, it may be added, to be succeeded by Mr. Hugh Elliot, the author of the newly-published and weighty book on Modern Science and Materialism.—(²) As one instance out of several where strenuous scientific disputes in journals led to subsequent acquaintance and ultimate friendship I would record that one of the warmest of Mercier's opponents was appointed by him as his literary executor.Google Scholar