[430]. To add, etc. This sentence, which seems obscure, should perhaps begin ‘I may add that,’ etc.
The Essay on the Inequality of Mankind. Rousseau’s Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes, 1755.
‘Faithful remembrancer.’ Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture, 11.
‘His high endeavour,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, V. 901.
The System of Nature. Hazlitt wrongly attributes to Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud (1675–1760) the Système de la Nature of Baron d’Holbach (1723–1789), published in 1770.
REMARKS ON THE SYSTEMS OF HARTLEY AND HELVETIUS
[434]. Hartley. David Hartley (1705–1757), whose Observations on Man, containing his famous principle of the Association of Ideas, appeared in 1749.
Helvetius. Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), whose famous work De L’Esprit appeared in 1758.
Note. Butler in the Preface to his Sermons. The Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel were published in 1726.
[441]. As has been explained, etc. An imperfect sentence. Probably Hazlitt wrote, ‘This has been explained,’ etc.