In Mr. Dugald Stewart's _Dissertation on the Progress of Metaphysical
Philosophy_ he says of Lord Shaftesbury's work entitled
_Characteristics_--
"It seemed to have the power of changing the temper of its critics.
It provoked the amiable Berkeley to a harshness equally unwonted
and unwarranted; while it softened the rugged Warburton so far as
to dispose the fierce, yet not altogether ungenerous, polemic to
price an enemy in the very heat of conflict."