171
I: iv. Hutcheson and Condillac are more likely sources for the passage under discussion than Locke or Shaftesbury, whom Villota, 153, suggests.
172
TTP 1: 252b. See also the denunciation of «sectas corruptoras» and «asociaciones tenebrosas», ibid., 251b-252a. Hobbes and Spinoza are also two of the philosophers against whom Locke had reacted (Alexander Campbell Fraser, Prolegomena to HU, 1: p. lv).
173
Oración inaugural a la apertura del Real Instituto Asturiano (1794), O 1: 321b-322a.
174
MSC 3, no. 58, ltrs. 5, 6; cf. O 1: 340b. Jovellanos' notes on Condorcet's Life of Turgot, MSC 3, no. 15, also declare the human spirit «perfectible en el individuo, -no en la especie», though adding that the transmission and conservation of knowledge make the species in a sense also perfectible. The latter part of Condorcet's work must be the source of this note, though I find no single passage to base it on. Cf. HCS, 7.
175
TTP 1: 231a. Cf. John Locke, Some thoughts concerning education, ed. R. H. Quick, 106, Cambridge, England, 1913: «The right Improvement, and Exercise of our Reason being the highest Perfection that a Man can attain to in this Life».
176
Sánchez Agesta, Pens. pol., 261 n. 13, 291-293; Herr, 371-373.
177
Locke's Two treatises of government, though dated 1690, made their influence felt on the Continent in the 18th century. On their acceptance in Spain see Sánchez Agesta, Pens. pol., 94.
178
HCS, I: iii, x, II: ii; Ferguson, Moral Phil., 204-205. Cf. Anthony earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times, etc., ed. John M. Robertson, 1: 74-75, London, 1900.
179
Ferguson, Moral Phil., 199-201. Cf. Godwin, III: ii, iv, where the validity of any such pact is denied and government is justified simply by its necessity.
180
TG, 347. Property for Locke, however, is «Life, Liberty and Estate», TG, 341. Cf. Condorcet, 289: «When men regularly associate, it can only be for the preservation of their natural rights. These rights are the security of themselves and their families, their liberty, and especially their property».