[172] Cp. Morley’s criticism. Diderot, ed. 1884, pp. 331–32. [↑]
[173] Beccaria’s Letter to Morellet, cited in ch. i of J. A. Farrer’s ed. of the Crimes and Punishments, p. 6. It is noteworthy that the partial reform effected earlier in England by Oglethorpe, on behalf of imprisoned debtors (1730–32), belongs to the time of propagandist deism there. [↑]
[174] Morley, Diderot, p. 329. [↑]
[175] Lettre à d’Alembert, 9 janvier, 1773. [↑]
[176] Cp. Rosenkranz, Vorbericht, p. vi. [↑]
[177] Cp. Morley, Diderot, ed. 1834, p. 32. [↑]
[179] A police agent seized the MS. in Diderot’s library, and Diderot could not get it back. Malesherbes, the censor, kept it safe for him! [↑]
[180] According to Naigeon (Mémoires, 1821, p. 131), three months and ten days. [↑]
[181] The Lettre purports, like so many other books of that and the next generation, to be published “A Londres.” [↑]