 Derek Roper, in his survey of late-eighteenth-century periodicals, describes the "Analytical" as "more radical both in politics and in religion than any other journal".As he explains, however, "these sentiments were not always fully explicit, and might be conveyed through the tone and manner of a summary rather than paragraphs of criticism".Many of the founding members of the "Analytical Review" were Unitarian and quite a few of its contributors were Dissenters, so contemporaries believed there to be a bias in the journal (most eighteenth-century journals were overtly partisan).