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Fuller 1984: 15) There can be little doubt of the importance of a formative experience at the Scots College in Paris during one of its liveliest periods or of the impact of attending lectures under Professor Vicaire at the College de Navarre or Jean Baptiste de L'Advocat at the Sorbonne. Moreover, the lack of focused attention on Geddes's Scottish background is readily understood when it is recalled that he left his native land for London in 1780 at the age of 43. The years afterwards, when he was able to devote himself to scholarship in the capital and the libraries of the English universities, under the patronage of Lord Petre, the English Catholic peer, were easily his most productive.

14 (on manna). In CR (p. 209) on Exod. 8 he comments: 'We sadly yet want a good work on Oriental botany; to which, we hope, some of Buonaparte's literary followers will not fail to pay due attention'. It may be added here how receptive his lively mind was to new discoveries of anthropologists and travellers. In CR (p. 235) on Exod. 26 on the divine epithet NB1 ('healer'), he comments: 'It is somewhat remarkable that in the Otaheitean language the word rapaoo denotes ^physician. See Cook's Last Voyage' (cf.

Hence.. the old adage: Ignorance is the mother of devotion. \ have been at great pains to examine every system of theology, that has come in my way, in order to fix my religious belief on something like a 20. Geddes was, in any case, in enough trouble with the authorities of his own Church on his own account. It must be remembered that 'By 1761 Hume's reputation had spread sufficiently to earn a place for all his works on the index of prohibited books of the Roman Catholic Church' (Mossner 1980: 228).