Note 173 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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Beccaria’s Letter to Morellet, cited in ch. i of J. A. Farrer’s ed. of the Crimes and Punishments, p. 6. It is noteworthy that the partial reform effected earlier in England by Oglethorpe, on behalf of imprisoned debtors (1730–32), belongs to the time of propagandist deism there. ↑