27. The translation is taken from Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream, tr. with Introductions by L. W. Tancock (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966), 156. For the original text, see, for one, Diderot, Entretien entre D’Alembert et Diderot; le Rêve de d’Alembert; Suite de l’Entretien, ed. Jacques Roger (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1965), 48–49.