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I am preparing the text for the Hayek Collected Works edition of _The Counter-Revolution of Science_ and have come up with three obscure references that I have been unable to track down. If anyone were able to help me, it would be greatly appreciated.



   Chapter 11, p. 193, note 14, reads: It is worthy of mention that the man
   who  was so largely responsible for the creation of what in the late
   nineteenth century came to be regarded as `historical sense', that is, of
   the Entwicklungsgedanke with all of its metaphysical associations, was the
   same man who was capable of celebrating in a discourse the deliberate
   destruction of papers relating to the history of the noble families of
   France. ?Today Reason burns the innumerable volumes which attest the
   vanity of a caste. Other vestiges remain in public and private libraries.
   They must be involved in a common destruction?. I could not locate the
   source for this quotation, which is probably Hayek's own translation. Does
   anyone know the source, or even just the person to whom he is referring?
   Hegel?

   Chapter 12, p. 232, Hayek writes, "There was even an economist among the
   contributors to the first volume of L'Industrie, St. Aubin, although one
   whom J.B. Say unkindly described as 'the clown of political economy'."
   Does anyone know who St. Aubin is, and where Say said this about him?

   Chapter 14, p. 268,
   note 10 - Hayek says that some of Saint-Amand Bazard's articles in the
   Saint-Simonian journal Producteur "were the immediate occasion for one of
   Benjamin Constant's most eloquent essays in defense of liberty." Does
   anyone know to which essay Hayek was referring? It would have appeared
   around 1826 or thereabouts.

   Again, if anyone can help, that would be great.

   Bruce Caldwell

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