His patriotic feelings displayed themselves in a Latin Ode to Liberty; published in March, 1780, under the title of Julii Melesigoni ad Libertatem, an assumed name, formed by an anagram of his own in Latin.

Voltaire (1694-1778)he himself had made this anagram from his name, Arouet l(e) j(eune)seemed by his many-sided receptivity almost made to be the interpreter of English ideas; in the words of Windelband, he "combines Newton's mechanical philosophy of nature, Locke's noëtical empiricism, and Shaftesbury's moral philosophy under the deistic point of view."

[107] The juxtaposition of this anagram with the preceding motto (which did not appear in the Appendix to Vol.