With thanks to many friends for all their help and enthusiasm for this project. Onwards to volume 3, 1791–1797!

… but woud lead them only by higher principles before they are sufficiently enlightened to follow them. Burke on the other hand lays too much stress on prejudice and custom, so much in my opinion as to destroy all difference between right & wrong.'

'It seems perfectly undoubted whatever debt they may have paid that they are at present in the utmost straits for money to answer the ordinary purposes of Govt.' James Wodrow, 16 June 1791.

'I hope both [American and Polish] Revolutions will be equaly stable. Yet I cannot help notwithstanding all that you & Paine say sometimes trembling for the Stability of the former. …

… wch I should feel at the sudden appearance of a blazing meteor … transformed into a sun & to perform its circuit wth the steadiness & regularity of that glorious luminary. Yet still it seems to open to us a new world, full of unexpected wonders.' Samuel Kenrick, 10 July 1791