See also Walpole to Mann, iv.

283.] [Footnote 247: D'Epinay, ii.

4, 138, 153, etc.] [Footnote 248: See Comte's _Positive Polity_, vol.iii.] [Footnote 249: "_That virtue of originality that men so strain after is not newness, as they vainly think (there is nothing new), it is only genuineness._"-- Ruskin.] [Footnote 250: Lessing: 1729-81.

Diderot: 1713-84.

As De Quincey puts it, Lessing may be said to have begun his career precisely in the middle of the last century.] [Footnote 251: _Hamburg.