{"id":1271,"date":"2011-09-19T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:29:55","slug":"analects-of-the-core-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/19\/analects-of-the-core-133\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Voltaire on Cun\u00e9gonde&#8217;s disposition for the sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Un jour, Cun\u00e9gonde, en se promenant aupr\u00e8s du ch\u00e2teau, dans le petit bois qu&#8217;on appelait parc, vit entre des broussailles le docteur Pangloss qui donnait une le\u00e7on de physique exp\u00e9rimentale \u00e0 la femme de chambre de sa m\u00e8re, petite brune tr\u00e8s jolie et tr\u00e8s docile. Comme Mlle Cun\u00e9gonde avait beaucoup de dispositions pour les sciences, elle observa, sans souffler, les exp\u00e9riences r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9es dont elle fut t\u00e9moin; elle vit clairement la raison suffisante du docteur, les effets et les causes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>One day when Miss Cunegonde went to take a walk in a little neighboring wood which was called a park, she saw, through the bushes, the sage Doctor Pangloss giving a lecture in experimental philosophy to her mother&#8217;s chambermaid, a little brown wench, very pretty, and very tractable. As Miss Cunegonde had a great disposition for the sciences, she observed with the utmost attention the experiments which were repeated before her eyes; she perfectly well understood the force of the doctor&#8217;s reasoning upon causes and effects.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Voltaire, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Candide-Optimism-Penguin-Classics-Voltaire\/dp\/0140440046\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316115325&amp;sr=8-2\">Candide<\/a><\/em>, Chapter 1, English trans. by William F. Fleming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Analects of the Core are taken from <em>Candide<\/em> in anticipation of this Saturday&#8217;s Core tip to see\u00a0 the Huntington Theatre Company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntingtontheatre.org\/season\/production.aspx?id=10114\">new production <\/a>of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s operatic version of Voltaire&#8217;s novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un jour, Cun\u00e9gonde, en se promenant aupr\u00e8s du ch\u00e2teau, dans le petit bois qu&#8217;on appelait parc, vit entre des broussailles le docteur Pangloss qui donnait une le\u00e7on de physique exp\u00e9rimentale \u00e0 la femme de chambre de sa m\u00e8re, petite brune tr\u00e8s jolie et tr\u00e8s docile. Comme Mlle Cun\u00e9gonde avait beaucoup de dispositions pour les sciences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,3691,1],"tags":[3713,3915,48728,3714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}