[FOOTNOTES]

[A] Leviathan, ch. xv.

[B] I can count up more than a dozen such cases among those personally well known to me.

[C] Constitutional Code, chap. xvi, Supreme Legislative—Section vi. Omnicompetence.

[D] Republic, Bk. ix.

[E] Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. i, chap 8.

[F] Bk. x, chap. 7.

[G] This universal requirement it was which I had in view when choosing for my first work, published in 1850, the title Social Statics.

[H] On Idiocy and Imbecility, by William W. Ireland, M. D., p. 255–6.

[I] For instances see Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXIV (New Series), p. 712.