[73] Parl. Hist., xxxiv. 1429.
[74] Fitzmaurice's Life of Shelburne, iii. 88, 435. His ideas on education he tried to enforce on his own estates. But "the clergy opposed his lordship's intentions, lest the children should become Dissenters, although it was engaged that the children of Church people should go to Church with their parents." Ibid., 438 n.
[75] Fitzmaurice, iii. 497, 498.
[76] Ibid., ii. 329.
[77] Ibid., 360.
[78] Ibid., iii. 438.
[79] Ibid., iii. 365.
[80] Letter to Lord Holland, 12th October, 1792.
[81] Speeches, vi. 383.
[82] M. Halévy suggests that the Wesleyan revival, which began in the middle of the eighteenth century, was largely if not wholly responsible for the social changes. But, except in so far as it increased dissent in religion, the liberating influence of Wesleyanism was small. The Wesleyans are, to this day, the most conservative of Nonconformists, and their mystical piety was utterly opposed to the rationalistic freethinking of the Revolution.