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broke faith, this time with Shaftesbury’s relatives and friends, by 
bringing out an unauthorized edition of certain private letters to 
Robert Molesworth. The epistles, according to Toland’s ‘‘large 
introduction” are “upon two of the nicest Subjects possible, and 
the most important to Mankind; the one private, the other publick; 
the first being the Choice of a Wife, and the second the Service 
to one^s Country.’’-^ Subsequent volumes of letters appeared in 
1746, 1750 and 1758. 
All of the works intended by Shaftesbury for publication, with 
the exception of the Preface to Dr. Whichcote’s Sermons, are to 
be found in editions of the Characteristics beginning with 1732. 
His letters, the so-called Philosophical Begimen,^^ and treatises III 
and IV of Second Characters'^^ did not appear until after his death. 
Little more than a mere catalogue of his works has been at¬ 
tempted. The chronological tabulation of them given below^^ is 
illuminating, in that it shows that they were in great demand, and 
that his popularity did not die out at any point in the century. 
Letters to Molesworth, p. 1. 
2® Published 1900, Benjamin Rand, editor, Macmillan Co., N. Y. 
Rand, Cambridge University Press, 1914. 
1698 Preface by Shaftesbury to Selected Sermons of Benjamin Whichcote. 
1699 Inquiry concerning Virtue, surreptitiously published by Toland. 
1708 Letter concerning Enthusiasm. 
1709 The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody. 
1709 Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor. 
1710 Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author. 
1711 Miscellaneous Reflections (published in the Characteristics). 
1711 Char act eristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, First Edition, 3 vols. 
1712 The Judgment of Hercules (in French). 
1713 The Judgment of Hercules (in English). 
1714 Letter concerning Design (appears for the first time in a large paper copy of 
the Second Edition of the Characteristics in the British Museum.) 
1714 Characteristics, Second Edition, 3 vols. 
1716 Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University, 
addressed to Michael Ainsworth. 
1721 Letters from the Late Earl of Shaftesbury to Robert Molesworth, Esq. Intro¬ 
duction by Toland. 
1723 Characteristics, Third Edition, 3 vols., 8vo., London. 
1727 Characteristics, Fourth Edition, 3 vols., 8vo., London. 
1732 Characteristics, Fifth Edition, 3 vols., 8vo., London 
1732 Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University. 
1733 Characteristics, Another Edition, 3 vols., 12mo., London. 
1737 Characteristics, Sixth Edition, 3 vols., 8vo., London. 
1744 Characteristics, Another Edition, 3 vols., 12 mo. 
1746 Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, collected in one volume. 
1749 Characteristics, Another Edition, 3 vols., 12mo., London. 
1750 Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, collected in one volume. 
1758 Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, including the Preface to Dr. Whichcote’s 
Sermons. 
1773 Characteristics, Fifth Edition, printed by Baskerville, Birmingham. 
1790 Characteristics, with a collection of letters, 8vo., Basil. 
