The most notable of them are the schemes of a dictator, rather than of the adviser of a free Government.

The essay is chiefly interesting as a monument of Defoe's marvellous force of mind, and strange mixture of steady sense with incontinent flightiness.

There are ebullient sallies in it which we generally find only in the productions of madmen and charlatans, and yet it abounds in suggestions which statesmen might profitably have set themselves with due adaptations to carry into effect.

The _Essay on Projects_ might alone be adduced in proof of Defoe's title to genius.
One of the first projects to which the Government of the Revolution addressed itself was the reformation of manners--a purpose at once commendable in itself and politically useful as distinguishing the new Government from the old.

Even while the King was absent in Ireland at the beginning of his reign, the Queen issued a letter calling upon all justices of the peace and other servants of the Crown to exert themselves in suppressing the luxuriant growth of vice, which had been fostered by the example of the Court of Charles.