[163] Book v. § 31.
[164] Thiébault, iii. 172; where there is a long and most disparaging account of Raynal, by no means incredible, though we must remember that a competent judge has pronounced Thiébault to be “stupid, incorrect, and the prey of stupidities.”
[165] Sénac de Meilhan, 123.
[166] Book i. § 7. Robertson works out this reflection in his Historical Disquisition concerning Ancient India, iv. § 8.
[167] Voyage d’un Philosophe, etc.; a work published in 1768, and in great vogue for some time, partly because it furnished material for the speculations of Raynal, Helvétius, and the rest. See De l’Homme, II. xiii., etc. Grimm, v. 450.
[168] Book xvii.
[169] Jefferson, quoted in Parton’s Life of Franklin, ii. 418.
[170] Walpole’s Letters, v. 421.
[171] Book xv. of the Esprit des Lois.
[172] Book xi. § 30.