What he did not see was the important truth that in no age are fundamental questions raised save where the body politic is diseased.

Rousseau and Voltaire, even Priestley and Price, require something more for answer than unreasoned prejudice.

Johnson's attitude would have been admirable where there were no questions to debate; but where Pelham ruled, or Grenville, or North, it had nothing to contribute.

Thought, after all, is the one certain weapon of utility in a different and complex world; and it was because the age refused to look it in the face that it invited the approach of revolution..