ABSTRACT
This chapter is aimed at concluding my narrative of the Hutchinsonians. The first objective of the chapter is to set out the new threats that forced Hutchinsonians to revise and renew their methods towards the end of the eighteenth century. I will explain the Hutchinsonian response to heterodoxy in the late eighteenth century and particularly to its links to political and social revolution. Hutchinsonians came to exhibit their fair share of the rising patriotism and increasing political conservatism of the period, responding to the threat of revolution made vivid by the actual revolution in France. They responded also to the ideas that appeared to have fed that revolution and which might seem about to feed revolution at home. The French Revolution itself seemed to inspire further intellectual as well as practical threats and these too needed to be answered.1
