_The mob demand the king’s removal to Paris. This city described. The king repairs to the capital, escorted by a deputation of the national assembly and the parisian militia. The king’s title changed. Proceedings of the national assembly. Reflections on the declaration of rights._ p. 470. CHAP. IV. _Progress of reform. The encyclopedia. Liberty of the press. Capitals. The french not properly qualified for the revolution. Savage compared with civilized man. Effects of extravagance—of commerce—and of manufactures. Excuse for the ferocity of the parisians._ p. 492. AN HISTORICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. _BOOK I._ CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. PROGRESS OF SOCIETY. END OF GOVERNMENT. RISE OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION AMONGST THE FRENCH. REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. VIRTUE ATTEMPTED TO BE BUILT ON FALSE PRINCIPLES. THE CROISADES, AND THE AGE OF CHIVALRY. ADMINISTRATION OF RICHELIEU, AND OF CARDINAL MAZARIN. THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS, AND DRAMATIC POETS OF THE FRENCH,—MOLIERE,—CORNEILLE,—RACINE. LOUIS XIV. THE REGENCY. LOUIS XV. When we contemplate the infancy of man, his gradual advance towards maturity, his miserable weakness as a solitary being, and the crudeness of his first notions respecting the nature of civil society, it will not appear extraordinary, that the acquirement of political knowledge has been so extremely slow; or that public happiness has not been more rapidly and generally diffused.