text:  Now if Le Sage intended to leave to posterity a lasting and unequivocal proof of his plagiarism how could he do so more effectually than by dwelling on one anachronism as an error which he intended to correct in a work swarming in every part with others equally flagrant of which he takes no notice? We have mentioned these mistakes particularly as being mistakes into which the original author had fallen and which as his object was not to give an exact relation of facts he probably disregarded altogether