Pol. Just., Book II, chap. h, 2e éd., vol. I, p

35. By gratitude I understand a sentiment, which would lead me to prefer one man to another, from some other considération than that of his superior usefulness or worth : that is, which would make somethmg true to me (for example this preferableness) which cannot be true to another man, and is not true in itself (idée empruntée, nous dit Godwin dans une note, à YEssay on the Nature of True Virtue, par le R. Jonathan Edwards). Pol. Just., 2e éd., Book II, chap. h, vol. I, pp. 129-130. — Cf Modem Infidelity considérée, with respect to its influence on society ; in a sermon preached at the Baptist Meeting, Cambridge, nov. 1800 (Works of Robert Hall., vol. 1, p. 58, note).

36. Pol. Just., Book II, chap. v. Le chapitre a pour titre, dans la deuxième

édition, le titre : « Of rights » ; il était intitulé, dans la première, « The rights of man ».

37. PoL Just., Book II, chap. v. Et Godwin continue par une réfutation directe de Paine : It is in the same spirit we hâve been told, that every nation has a right to choose its form of government. A most acute and original author was probably misled by the vulgar phraseology on this subject, when he asserts, that « at a time when neither the people of France nor national assembly were troubling themselves about the affairs of England or the English parliament, Mr. Burke's conduct was unpardonable in commencing an unprovoked attack upon them » (2 e éd., pp. 165-166).

38. Pol. JusL, Book II, chap. vi. Of the exercise of private judgment (2« éd , vol. I, pp. 171 sqq).