338 Notes 29. Ernest Renan, “Des services rendus aux sciences historiques par la philotogie,” in Oeuvres complétes 8: 1228. 30. Renan, Souvenirs, p. 892. 31. Foucault, The Order of Things, pp. 290-300. Along with the discrediting of the Edenic origins of language, a number of other events—the Deluge, the building of the Tower Babel—also were discredited as explanations, The most comprehensive history of theories of linguistic origin is Amo Borst, Der Turmbau von Babel: Geschichte der Meinungen tiber Ursprung und Vielfait der Sprachen und Volker, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1957-63). 32. Quoted by Raymond Schwab, Lea Renaissance orientale (Paris: Payot, 1950), p. 69. On the dangers of too quickly succumbing to generalities about Oriental discoveries, see the reflections of the distinguished contemporary Sinologist Abel Rémusat, Mélanges postumes d’histoire et littérature orientales (Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1843), p. 226 and passim, 33. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, chap. 16, in Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge, ed. Donald A. Stauffer (New York: Random House, 1951), pp. 276~—7. 34. Benjam® Constant, Oeuvres, ed. Alfred Roulin (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), p. 78. 35. Abrams, Natura! Supernaturalism, p. 29. 36. Renan, De forigine du langage, in Oeuvres complétes, 8: 122. 37. Renan, “De ta part des peuples sémitiques dans [histoire de la civilisation,” in Oeuvres compléres, 2: 320. 38. Ibid., p. 333. 39. Renan, “Trois Professeurs au Cotlége de France: Etienne Quatremére,” in Oeuvres complétes, 1: 129. Renan was not wrong ahout Quatremére, who had a talent for picking interesting subjects to study and then making them Quite uninteresting. See his essays “Le Godt des livres chez les orientaux” and “Des sciences chez les arabes,” in his Mélanges d’histoire et de philologie orientales (Paris: E. Ducrocq, 1861), pp. 1-57. 40. Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin, vol. 9 (Etudes philosoghiques 1) of La Comédie humaine, cd. Marcel Bouteron (Paris: Gallimard, 1950), p. 39; Renan, Histoire générale des langues sémitiques, p. 134. 41. See, for instance, De l'origine du langage, p. 102, and Histoire générale, p. 18@. 42. Renan, L’ Avenir de la science, p. 23. The whole passage reads as follows: “Pour moi, je ne connais qu'un seu! résultat a la science, c'est de résoudre