John Morley: “Though he respected the writings of Rousseau and confessed his obligations to them, Turgot abhorred declamation.”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?