https://www.superphysics.org/research/descartes/letters/friend/ Recent content in Friend on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/descartes/letters/friend/part-01b/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/descartes/letters/friend/part-01b/ <p>LETTER II.</p> <p>SIR,</p> <p>There was no need for the ceremony that your friend wished to employ; those of his merit and intellect have no need of mediators, and I shall always count it a favor when persons like him do me the honor of consulting me about my writings. I beg you to rid him of this scruple; but for this time, since he has wished it, I shall take the trouble of addressing my Replies to him through you.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/descartes/letters/friend/part-01/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/descartes/letters/friend/part-01/ <p>To be delivered to him. LETTER FIRST. SIR,</p> <p>Not daring to address myself directly to Mr Descartes to propose my difficulties to him, I borrow your credit, to beg you to present them to him, and to try to arrange that he takes them in good part, as coming from a person who has more desire to learn than to contradict.</p>