FINIS. _I was engrossed by the last Cares which the Publication of this Book occasioned, when M. de_ CALONNE’S _Second Memorial made its Appearance. I have read it; and I here publicly engage to answer this new Attack, and fully to support the Credit which is justly due to the Account I presented to the King in 1781._ NECKER. ----- Footnote 1: Thesis proposed by the French Academy, with a prize, for the best Catechism of Morals, the instructions of which were to be founded on the principles of natural right only. Footnote 2: I should have enlarged this chapter, if I did not intend to make some general reflections on intolerance in another part of this work. Footnote 3: These various reflections are very necessary in the place where I live; since, for a short time, labourers have been permitted to work, at Paris, of a Sunday. We see this publicly done at the new bridge, which is building over the Seine, as if a work of mere convenience was in such haste, that the laws should be dispensed with to accelerate its execution. The labourers, some will say, are glad to gain a day every week. Undoubtedly, because they see only the present instant, they have reason to think so; but it is the duty of government to consider, in a more comprehensive point of view, the interest of the people, of that part of society, which is so blind, or so limited in its calculation; and the church should examine also, if the sudden alteration of a practice so ancient, may not give rise to an idea, that the spirit of religion is grown feeble. For the nations where this spirit is best preserved, have the greatest respect for the Sabbath. Footnote 4: This mass is commonly called a low mass. Footnote 5: Some say, in order to weaken this argument, that we may attribute to the indivisible unit all the qualities of matter, that a round body is really divisible, but that roundness and impenetrability are not. Such an objection is evidently not just. Roundness and impenetrability are only qualities, and these qualities, when merely abstract, are necessarily invariable: thus, it is as impossible to divide it, as it is to multiply and increase it; but my soul, my thoughts, the consciousness that I have of my own existence, forms a particular and personal being; and if it were of the same nature as matter, ought to be equally divisible. Footnote 6: I shall present some reflections on this truth in another Chapter. Footnote 7: Dr. Herschel. Footnote 8: