'
--_Plato de Leg_. x. 16.
This theory has been delivered of late, especially abroad, in a
manner which subverts the freedom of human actions; whereas Plato
appears very careful to preserve it, and has been in that respect
imitated by the best of his followers.
ENDNOTE T.
'_One might rise,
One order_,' etc.--P. 31.
See the _Meditations_ of Antoninus and the _Characteristics_, passim.
ENDNOTE U.
'_The best and fairest_,' etc.--P. 32.
This opinion is so old, that Timaeus Locrus calls the Supreme Being
[Greek: demiourgos tou beltionos], the artificer of that which is
best; and represents him as resolving in the beginning to produce
the most excellent work, and as copying the world most exactly from
his own intelligible and essential idea; 'so that it yet remains, as
it was at first, perfect in beauty, and will never stand in need of
any correction or improvement.' There can be no room for a caution
here, to understand the expressions, not of any particular
circumstances of human life separately considered, but of the sum or
universal system of life and being. See also the vision at the end
of the _Theodicee_ of Leibnitz.
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