Esp. des L., livre V'I, chap. i

7. Commun Sensé, chap. I^i'. — Cf. Priestley, An Esmij, etc., éd. 1771, p.. 15, sect. II. Political Liberty : The more complex any machine is, ami the more nicely it is fitted to answer its purpose, tlie moi'c liable it is to disorder. — p. 53, sect. III, Civil Liberty : Little dilîiculty, however, has, in fact, arisen froni the nature of the things, in comparison of the difticulties that bave been occasioned by its being tlie interest of men to combine, confound, and perplex them. — j). 42, sect. II, Pol. lib. : In large states, this ultimate seat of power, tiiis tribunal to ^vlli(•ll lies an appeal from every other. and from which no appeal tan even be imagined, is too much hid, and kept out of sight by the présent comiilex forms of government, whieh deri\e their authoiity from il.

8. Vindiciœ Galliciœ, sect. V. — Paine {Riijhts of Man, Part II, eiiap. iv), cite la pensée de Swift : « Government is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many hcads ». Cf. William Goduin, Préface : Political eomplexity is one of the errors that take strongest hold on the understanding: and it was only by ideas suggested by the Freneh Révolution, that lie was reconciled to the desirablenessof a government of the simplest description.

— 11 est curieux de remarquer que Buike connaissait Tobjection : il avait réfuté, dans sa Vindication of Salunil Socicly (Works, vol. I, pp. 12-13), la théorie propre aux « bigots and enthusiasts », selon laquelle il faut respecter les préjugés. — <■ Absuid and blasphemous notion! as if ail ha|ipiness was not connected with tlie praclice of \irlue, whicii necessari]\ dépends upon the knowledge of trutli ; that is, upon the knowledgc of those unaltcrable relations which Providence has oïdained that every thing should bear to every other, those l'elations, which are trutli itself, the foundationof virtue, andconscquently, the only measurcs by which \\(' should direct our reasoning. — V. la remarque de Gotlwin {Pol. Jnsl.. liook I, chap. 11; 2" éd., vol. I, p. l'i note) sur (;et ouvrage de Burke.

'J. Viiid. Gai/., sert. 1. — Et encor The philosu]ihers of lùiiope liad l'or a century discussed ail objeits ixilitical o'conomy. The consielinn of a great majorily of enlighlencd men had, aller many controversies, become, on most questions of gênerai politics, uniform. A degice i>( cer-

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tainty, perhaps nearly equal to tliat whicli such topics will admil, had been altained.