Excerpt from Diderot: As a Disciple of English Thought His wishes for the United States. - Conclusion; Diderot's English Friends; An enemy: Horace Walpole. - Many Englishmen in Paris after 1763. - An anecdote by Goldsmith. - Incomplete state of Diderot's Correspondence. - A great friend: "Hoop," or Hope; his life and character. - Tales of savages; Baron Dieskau; anthropology and philosophy. - Curiosities of literature: Hoop and Sterne; Smollett's "Roman dinner." - Sterne; did he know Diderot personally? - Gibbon. - Obscurer visitors to Paris; Three famous friends of Diderot: Garrick; Hume; Wilkes. - Franklin in Paris; English reaction against French free-thinking: Burke, Romilly. - The divorce between the French and English intellects; The Moralist and Philosopher; Diderot "le Philosophe" essentially a moralist. - Shaftesbury's popularity in England and France. - His Inquiry concerning merit or virtue. - Why Diderot found it especially interesting. - Rhetorical precautions. - English "boldness" tempered in the translation. - Shaftesbury's influence on Diderot. - Sceptical doubts About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.