by JEAN SEZNEC
Fellow of All Souls, and Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford
' Besides being a classical scholar and a historian of philosophy, Diderot was interested in physiology, in mathematics, in rural economy, in anthropology, in music, in theology, in painting. in linguistics. He roamed every field of learning; he pursued every idea as eagerly, he said. as if he were running after loose women.'