[779]. Essay, 7th ed., IV. vi 420–1.

[780]. W. of N., I. i.

[781]. More strictly, what grows of itself is natural; what makes it grow of itself is Nature.

[782]. See e. g. Essay, p. 390.

[783]. Life of Godwin, ii. 266.

[784]. Southey wished some “Crusader” like Rickman to write economical articles for the Quarterly and keep out Malthus (Life and Letters, vol. iii. p. 188).

[785]. Essay, III. vii. 318; written in 1817.

[786]. 2nd ed., IV. vi.; 7th ed., IV. vi. and vii. He must have remembered, when he wrote these words, the imprisonment of his poor tutor Gilbert Wakefield for a seditious pamphlet (1799–1800). See below, Bk. V.

[787]. 7th ed., p. 417.

[788]. 7th ed., p. 426: written in 1817. For the tendency of the French before the Revolution to look to Government for everything, see e. g. Dyer’s Modern Europe, vol. iv. ch. lii p. 304.