Bolingbroke : Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), prominent in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14); later a major propagandist in opposition to the Whigs.
... in their way, but they are not the whole of politics. Ideas, reflection, the political reason count for quite as much, are quite as essential. But on these, though individual Englishmen, men like Bolingbroke, Arnold, Burke, have had them pre-eminently, the race has always kept a very inadequate hold: and Mr. Hume is distinguished from his countrymen, not by the description of his merits, but by their ...
... reflection upon the principles of plenitude and continuity.” 18 This open-ended view, in academic literature seldom associated with former European thought, was worded by the philosopher Viscount Bolingbroke as follows: “Shall we not be persuaded rather that as there is a gradation of sense and intelligence here from animal beings imperceptible to us for their minuteness, without the aid of microscopes ...
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