T 3.2.10.17

It does not belong to my present purpose to shew, that these general principles are applicable to the late revolution; and that all the rights and privileges, which ought to be sacred to a free nation, were at that time threaten'd with the utmost danger. I am better pleas'd to leave this controverted |subject, if it really admits of controversy; and to indulge myself in some philosophical reflections, which naturally arise from that important event.