¹ ‘Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.’ Luke, Ch. XII. Ver. 4.

² This was the opinion of the celebrated Mr Turgot. ‘He thought that the moral sentiments of mankind might be considerably strengthened, and the perception of them rendered more delicate and precise, either by frequent exercise, or the perpetually subjecting them to the anatomy of a pure and enlightened understanding. For this reason he considered romances as holding a place among the treatises of morality, and even as the only books in which he was aware of having seen moral principles treated in an impartial manner.’ ‘M. Turgot pensoit qu’on peut parvenir à fortifier dans les hommes leurs sentimens moraux, à les render plus délicatset plus justes, soit par l’exercise de ces sentiments, soit en apprenant àles soumettre à l’analyse d’une raison saine et éclairée. C’est par ce motif qu’il regardoit les romans comme des livres de morale, et meme, disoit-il, comme les seuls oùil eût vu de la morale.’ Vie de M. Turgot,* par M. de Condorcet.