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etc. (Eng. tr. i, 309, 321, 328). [1556] R. N. Bain, The First Romanovs, 1905, pp. 136-51; Rambaud, p. 333 (tr. i, 414-17). The struggle (1654) elicited old forms of heresy, going back to Manicheism and Gnosticism. In this furious schism Nikon destroyed irregular ikons or sacred images; and savage persecutions resulted from his insistence that the faithful should use three fingers instead of two in crossing themselves. Many resisted to the death. [1557] Prince Serge Wolkonsky, Russian History and Literature, 1897, pp. 98-101. [1558] Morfill, History of Russia, 1902, p. 14; Bain, p. 201. [1559] Cp. Wolkonsky, p. 101. [1560] C. E. Turner, Studies in Russian Literature, 1882, p. 2. [1561] Id. pp. 16, 17, 25, 26, 40; Sichler, p. 148. [1562] Sichler, p. 139. Peter's dislike of monks won him the repute of a freethinker. Morfill, p. 97. He was actually attacked as "Antichrist" in a printed pamphlet on the score of his innovations. Personally, he detested religious persecution, and was willing to tolerate anybody but Jews; but he had to let persecution take place; and even to consent to removing statues of pagan deities from his palace. Bain, pp. 304-309. [1563] Cp. Bain, p. 392. [1564] Turner, p. 22. Kantemir was the friend of Bolingbroke and Montesquieu in Paris. [1565] Sichler, p. 147. [1566] Turner, pp. 40-41. [1567] See the passages cited by Rambaud, p. 482, from her letter to Voltaire. [1568] Seume, Ueber das Leben ... der Kaiserin Catharina II: Werke, ed. 1839, v, 239-40; Rambaud, pp. 482-84. [1569] See Bishop Burnet's Letters, iv, ed. Rotterdam, 1686, pp. 187-91. [1570] Zeller, Histoire d'Italie, pp. 426-32, 450; Procter, Hist. of Italy, 2nd ed. pp. 240, 268. [1571] Burnet, as cited, pp. 195-97. [1572] Prof. Flint, who insists on the deep piety of Vico, notes that he "appears to have had strangely little interest in Christian systematic theology" (Vico, 1884, p. 70). [1573] Siciliani, Sul Rinnovamento della filosofia positiva in Italia, 1871, pp. 37-41. [1574] Siciliani, p. 36. [1575] Introduction (by Mignet?) to the Princess Belgiojoso's tr. La Science Nouvelle, 1844, p. cxiii. Cp. Flint, Vico, 231. [1576] Ganganelli, Papst Clemens XIV, seine Briefe und seine Zeit, vom Verfasser der Römischen Briefe (Von Reumont), 1847, pp. 35-36, and p. 155, note. [1577] See the Storia della economia pubblica in Italia of G. Pecchio, 1829, p. 61 sq., as to the claim of Antonio Serra (Breve trattato, etc. 1613) to be the pioneer of modern political economy. Cp. Hallam, Lit. of Europe, iii, 164-66. Buckle (1-vol. ed. p. 122, note) has claimed the title for William Stafford, whose Compendious or briefe Examination of certain ordinary Complaints (otherwise called A Briefe Conceipt of English Policy) appeared in 1581. But cp. Ingram (Hist. of Pol. Econ. 1888, pp. 43-45) as to the prior claims of Bodin. [1578] Briefe, as before cited, p. 408. [1579] Correspondence littéraire, ed. 1829-31, vii, 331. Cp. Von Reumont, Ganganelli, p. 33. [1580] The Dei delitti e delle pene was translated into 22 languages. Pecchio, p. 144. [1581] See in the 6th ed. of the Dei delitti (Harlem, 1766) the appended Risposta ad uno scritto, etc., Parte prima, Accuse d'empietà. [1582] See his letter to the Abbé Morellet, cited by Mr. Farrer in ch. i of his ed. of Crimes and Punishments, 1880, p. 5. It describes the Milanese as deeply sunk in prejudices. [1583] Pecchio, p. 123. [1584] Cp. McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy, 1845, p. 64; Blanqui, Hist. de l'economie politique, 2e édit. ii, 432. [1585] As to the genuineness of the Ganganelli letters, originally much disputed, see Von Reumont's Ganganelli, Papst Clemens XIV; seine Briefe und seine Zeit, 1847, pp. 40-44. [1586] Lett. lvi, Eng. tr. 1777, i, 141-42. No. lxxii in Von Reumont's Ganganelli, 1847. [1587] Lett. xiii, 1749. Eng. tr. i, 44-46; No. cxiv in Von Reumont's translation. [1588] Lett. vi and xiv; Nos. ix and xxii in Von Reumont. [1589] Lett. xxx, p. 83; No. xxxiv in Von Reumont. [1590] Lett. xci; No. xcii in Von Reumont. [1591] Lett. cxlvi; No. xiii in Von Reumont. [1592] Lett. lxxxii, 1753 or 1754; No. lxi in Von Reumont. [1593] Lett. cxxiv, 1769. This letter is not in Von Reumont's collection, and appears to be regarded by him as spurious--or unduly indiscreet. [1594] Lett. lxxxiii, 1754; No. lxxiii in Von Reumont. [1595] Corr. Litt. as cited, vii, 104. [1596] Zeller, p. 473. [1597] Zeller, pp. 478-79. [1598] Julien Luchaire, Essai sur l'evolution intellectuelle de l'Italie de 1815 à 1830, 1906, p. 3. [1599] Parini wrote a reproving Ode on the subject. (Henri Hauvette, Littérature Italienne, 1906, p. 371.) He was one of those disillusioned by the course of the Revolution. (Id. p. 375.) [1600] Hauvette, pp. 391-93. [1601] Coxe, Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain, ed. 1815, iv, 408. [1602] Villanueva, Vida Literaria, London, 1825. [1603] Buckle, iii, 547-48 (1-vol. ed. 599-600). The last victim seems to have been a woman accused of witchcraft. Her nose was cut off before her execution. See the Marokkanische Briefe, 1785, p. 36; and Buckle's note 272. [1604] Letter of D'Alembert to Voltaire, 13 mai, 1773. [1605] Grimm, Corr. Litt. x, 393. [1606] Llorente, ii, 534. [1607] As to which see Buckle, p. 607. [1608] Llorente, ii, 544. [1609] Id. ii, 544-47. [1610] Grimm is evidently in error in his statement (Correspondance, ed. 1829-31, x, 394) that one of the main grievances against Olavidès was his having caused to be made a Spanish translation of Raynal's book, which was never published. No such offence is mentioned by Llorente. The case of Almodobar had been connected in French rumour with that of Olavidès. [1611] Llorente, ii, 532. [1612] Id. ii, 534-35. [1613] Id. pp. 547-48. [1614] Llorente, ii. 549-50. [1615] Id. ii, 472-73. [1616] Id. pp. 436-40. [1617] Id. ii, 440-42. Llorente mentions that Clavijo edited a journal named The Thinker, "at a time when hardly anyone was to be found who thought." A Frenchman, Langle having asserted, in his Voyage d'Espagne, that the Thinker was without merit, the historian comments that if Langle is right in the assertion, it will be the sole verity in his book, but that, in view of his errors on all other matters, it is probable that he is wrong there also. [1618] Llorente, p. 449. [1619] Id. ii, 450-51. The book was prohibited, but a printer at Bayonne reissued it with an additional volume of the tracts written for and against it. [1620] Id. ii, 469-72. [1621] Buckle, p. 618. [1622] Id. p. 612. [1623] Id. p. 613. [1624] Carnota, The Marquis of Pombal, 2nd ed. 1871, p. 242. [1625] Id. p. 240. [1626] Id. pp. 261-62. [1627] Id. p. 262. [1628] Id. p. 375. [1629] Cp. P. Godet, Hist. litt. de la suisse française, 1900. [1630] E. de Budé, Vie de François Turrettini, 1871, pp. 12-18. B. Turrettini was commissioned to write a history of the Reformation at Geneva, which however remains in MS. He was further commissioned in 1621 to go to Holland to obtain financial help for the city, then seriously menaced by Savoy; and obtained 30,000 florins, besides smaller sums from Hamburg and Bremen. [1631] Cp. Budé, as cited, pp. 24 (birth-date wrong), 294; and the Avis de l'Éditeur to the Traité de la Verité de la Religion Chrétienne of J. A. Turretin, Paris, 1753. [1632] Work cited, i, 8, note. [1633] Lettre à Damilaville, 6 décembre, 1763. The reserved youth may have been either Jean-Alphonse, grandson of the Socinian professor, who was born in 1735 and died childless, or some other member of the numerous Turrettini clan. [1634] Voltaire to Damilaville, 12 juillet, 1763. "Il faut que vous sachiez," explains Voltaire "que Jean Jacques n'a été condamné que parce qu'on n'aime pas sa personne." [1635] Voltaire to Damilaville, 21 auguste, 1763. [1636] Cp. i, 2, 16, 56, 58, 65, 68, 70, 71, 73, 94; ii, 290, etc. [1637] For instance: "Je me recommande contr'eux [les prêtres] à Dieu le père, car pour le fils, vous savez qu'il a aussi peu de crédit que sa mère à Genève" (Lettre à D'Alembert, 25 mars, 1758).... "Une république où tout le monde est ouvertement socinien, exceptés ceux qui font anabaptistes ou moraves. Figurez-vous, mon cher ami, qu'il n'y a pas actuellement un chrétien de Genève à Berne; cela fait frémir!" (To the same, 8 fév. 1776.) [1638] On this see the correspondence of Voltaire and D'Alembert, under dates 8, 28, and 29 janvier, 1757. [1639] Lettre à D'Alembert, 27 août, 1757. [1640] Lettres sur le Déisme, 1759, p. 6. Cp. pp. 84, 94, 103, 105, 412. [1641] John Wesley in his Journal, dating May, 1737, speaks of having everywhere met many more "converts to infidelity" than "converts to Popery," with apparent reference to Carolina. [1642] Such is the wording of the passage in the Autobiography in the Edinburgh edition of 1803, p. 25, which follows the French translation of the original MS. In the edition of the Autobiography and Letters in the Minerva Library, edited by Mr. Bettany (1891, p. 11), which follows Mr. Bigelow's edition of 1879, it runs: "Being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious doctrine...." [1643] Only in 1784, however, appeared the first anti-Christian work published in America, Ethan Allen's Reason the only Oracle of Man. As to its positions see Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 192-93. [1644] Autobiography, Bettany's ed. pp. 56, 65, 74, 77, etc. [1645] Letter of March 9, 1790. Id. p. 636. [1646] Cp. J. T. Morse's Thomas Jefferson, pp. 339-40. [1647] MS. cited by Dr. Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 310-11. [1648] Memoirs of Jefferson, 1829, iv, 300-301. The date is 1817. These and other passages exhibiting Jefferson's deism are cited in Rayner's Sketches of the Life, etc., of Jefferson, 1832, pp. 513-17. [1649] Memoirs of Jefferson, iv, 331. [1650] Dr. Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 310. [1651] Extract from Jefferson's Journal under date February 1, 1800, in the Memoirs, iv, 512. Gouverneur Morris, whom Jefferson further cites as to Washington's unbelief, is not a very good witness; but the main fact cited is significant. [1652] Compare the testimony given by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Albany, in 1831, as cited by R. D. Owen in his Discussion on the Authenticity of the Bible with O. Bacheler (London, ed. 1840, p. 231), with the replies on the other side (pp. 233-34). Washington's death-bed attitude was that of a deist. See all the available data for his supposed orthodoxy in Sparks's Life of Washington, 1852, app. iv. [1653] So far as is known, Paine was the first writer to use the expression "the religion of Humanity." See Conway's Life of Paine, ii, 206. To Paine's influence, too, appears to be due the founding of the first American Anti-Slavery Society. Id. i, 51-52, 60, 80, etc. [1654] Cp. Conway's Life of Paine, ii, 205-207. [1655] A letter of Franklin to someone who had shown him a freethinking manuscript, advising against its publication (Bettany's ed. p. 620), has been conjecturally connected with Paine, but was clearly not addressed to him. Franklin died in 1790, and Paine was out of America from 1787 onwards. But the letter is in every way inapplicable to the Age of Reason. The remark: "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?" could not be made to a devout deist like Paine. [1656] Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 254-55. [1657] See Dr. Conway's chapter, "The American Inquisition," vol. ii, ch. xvi; also pp. 361-62, 374, 379. The falsity of the ordinary charges against Paine's character is finally made clear by Dr. Conway, ch. xix, and pp. 371, 383, 419, 423. Cp. the author's pamphlet, Thomas Paine: An Investigation (Bonner). The chronically revived story of his death-bed remorse for his writings--long ago exposed (Conway, ii, 420)--is definitively discredited in the latest reiteration. That occurs in the Life and Letters of Dr. R. H. Thomas (1905), the mother of whose stepmother was the Mrs. Mary Hinsdale, née Roscoe, on whose testimony the legend rests. Dr. Thomas, a Quaker of the highest character, accepted the story without question, but incidentally tells of the old lady (p. 13) that "her wandering fancies had all the charm of a present fairy-tale to us." No further proof is needed, after the previous exposure, of the worthlessness of the testimony in question. [1658] Conway, ii, 371. [1659] See the details in Conway's Life, ii, 280-81, and note. He had also a scheme for a gunpowder motor (id. and i, 240), and various other remarkable plans. [1660] Conway, ii, 362-71. [1661] Testimonies quoted by R. D. Owen, as cited, pp. 231-32. [1662] Conway, ii, 422. [1663] Memoir of Sydney Smith, by his daughter, Lady Holland, ed. 1869, p. 49. Lady Holland remarks on the same page that her father's religion had in it "nothing intolerant." [1664] Memoir of Sydney Smith, p. 142. [1665] Julien Luchaire, Essai sur l'évolution intellectuelle de l'Italie, 1906, pp. 5-7. [1666] Dr. Ramage, Nooks and Byeways of Italy, 1868, pp. 76, 105-13. Ramage describes the helplessness of the better minds before 1830. [1667] Luchaire, pp. 35, 36. [1668] Id. p. 30. [1669] Doblado (Blanco White), Letters from Spain, 1822. p. 358. [1670] Thus the traveller and belletrist J. G. Seume, a zealous deist and opponent of atheism, and a no less zealous patriot, penned many fiercely freethinking maxims, as: "Where were the most so-called positive religions, there was always the least morality"; "Grotius and the Bible are the best supports of despotism"; "Heaven has lost us the earth"; "The best apostles of despotism and slavery are the mystics." Apokryphen, 1806-1807, in Sämmtliche Werke, 1839, iv, 157, 173, 177, 219. [1671] C. H. Cottrell, Religious Movements of Germany, 1849, p. 12 sq. [1672] Cp. the author's Evolution of States, pp. 138-39. [1673] When I thus planned the treatment of the nineteenth century in the first edition of this book, it was known to me that Mr. Alfred W. Benn had in hand a work on The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century; and the knowledge made me the more resolved to keep my own record condensed. Duly published in 1906 (Longmans, 2 vols.), Mr. Benn's book amply fulfilled expectations; and to it I would refer every reader who seeks a fuller survey than the present. Its freshness of thought and vigour of execution will more than repay him. Even Mr. Benn's copious work, however--devoting as it does a large amount of space to a preliminary survey of the eighteenth century--leaves room for various English monographs on the nineteenth, to say nothing of the culture history of a dozen other countries. [1674] Lecky, Hist. of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, ed. 1892, iii, 382. [1675] Cp. Conway's Life of Paine, ii, 252-53. [1676] This translation, issued by "Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row, and all booksellers," purports to be "with additions." The translation, however, has altered d'Holbach's atheism to deism. [1677] By W. Huttman. The book is "embellished with a head of Jesus"--a conventional religious picture. Huttman's opinions may be divined from the last sentence of his preface, alluding to "the high pretentions and inflated stile of the lives of Christ which issue periodically from the English press." [1678] Cp. Dynamics of Religion, pp. 208-209. [1679] See Harriet Martineau's History of the Peace, ed. 1877, ii, 87, and Mrs. Carlile Campbell's The Battle of the Press (Bonner, 1899), passim, as to the treatment of those who acted as Carlile's shopmen. Women were imprisoned as well as men--e.g. Susanna Wright, as to whom see Wheeler's Dictionary, and last ref. Carlile's wife and sister were likewise imprisoned with him; and over twenty volunteer shopmen in all went to jail. [1680] Hone's most important service to popular culture was his issue of the Apocryphal New Testament, which, by co-ordinating work of the same kind, gave a fresh scientific basis to the popular criticism of the gospel history. As to his famous trial for blasphemy on the score of his having published certain parodies, political in intention, see bk. i, ch. x (by Knight) of Harriet Martineau's History of the Peace. [1681] Holyoake, Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life, i, 109-10. See p. 111 as to other cases. [1682] Art. by Holyoake in Dict. of Nat. Biog. Cp. Sixty Years, per index. [1683] Articles in Dict. of Nat. Biog. [1684] Holyoake, Sixty Years, i, 47. [1685] Kirkup, History of Socialism, 1892, p. 64. [1686] "From an early age he had lost all belief in the prevailing forms of religion" (Kirkup, p. 59). [1687] Reformers of almost all schools, indeed, from the first regarded Owen with more or less genial incredulity, some criticizing him acutely without any ill-will. See Podmore's Robert Owen, 1906, i, 238-42. Southey was one of the first to detect his lack of religious belief. Id. p. 222, n. [1688] Podmore, i, 246. [1689] Kirkup, as cited, p. 64. [1690] Podmore, ii, 640. [1691] "Extraordinary self-complacency," "autocratic action," "arrogance," are among the expressions used of him by his ablest biographer. (Podmore, ii, 641.) Of him might be said, as of Emerson by himself, "the children of the Gods do not argue"--the faculty being absent. [1692] Pamphlet sold at 1 1/2d., and "to be had of all the Booksellers." [1693] Of George Combe's Constitution of Man (1828), a deistic work, over 50,000 copies were sold in Britain within twelve years, and 10,000 in America. Advt. to 4th ed. 1839. Combe avows that his impulse came from the phrenologist Spurzheim. [1694] See the details in his Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England. [1695] The Gospel its Own Witness, 1799. rep. in Bohn's ed. of The Principal Works and Remains of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, 1852, pp. 136-37. [1696] See Prof. Flint's tribute to the reasoning power of Bradlaugh and Holyoake in his Anti-Theistic Theories, 4th ed. pp. 518-19. [1697] See Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner's Charles Bradlaugh, i, 149, 288-89. [1698] For a full record see Part II of Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner's Charles Bradlaugh. [1699] After Bradlaugh had secured his seat, the noble lord even sought his acquaintance. [1700] Though young Conservative members, after 1886, privately professed sympathy. [1701] Work cited, p. 524. [1702] Coquerel, Essai sur l'histoire générale du christianisme, 1828, préf. [1703] Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Diary in France, 1845, pp. 75-77. [1704] "The miserable and deistical principle of the equality of all religions" (id. p. 188). Cp. pp. 151, 153. [1705] Id. pp. 15, 37, 45, 181, 185, 190. [1706] Id. pp. 157-61. As to the general vogue of rationalism in France at that period, see pp. 35, 204: and compare Saisset, Essais sur la philosophie et la religion, 1845; The Progress of Religious Thought as illustrated in the Protestant Church of France, by Dr. J. R. Beard, 1861; and Wilson's article in Essays and Reviews. As to Switzerland and Holland, see Pearson, Infidelity, its Aspects, etc., 1853, pp. 560-64, 575-84. [1707] Louis Philippe sought to suppress this book, of which many editions had appeared before 1830. See Blanco White's Life, 1845, ii. 168. [1708] Prof. E. Lavisse, Un Ministre: Victor Duruy, 1895 (rep. of art. in Revue de Paris, Janv. 15 and Mars 1, 1895), p. 117. [1709] Id. pp. 99-105. [1710] Id. pp. 107-118. [1711] Id. pp. 118-27. [1712] Llorente, Hist. crit. de l'Inquisition de l'Espagne, 2e édit, iv, 153. [1713] Rapport of Ch. Fulpius in the Almanach de Libre Pensée, 1906. [1714] Squier, Notes on Central America, 1856, p. 227. [1715] Before 1840 the popular freethought propaganda had been partly carried on under cover of Radicalism, as in Carlile's Republican, and Lion, and in various publications of William Hone. Cp. H. B. Wilson's article "The National Church," in Essays and Reviews, 9th ed. p. 152. [1716] Described as "our chief atheistic organ" by the late F. W. Newman "because Dr. James Martineau declined to continue writing for it, because it interpolated atheistical articles between his theistic articles" (Contributions ... to the early history of the late Cardinal Newman, 1891, p. 103). The review was for a time edited by J. S. Mill, and for long after him by Dr. John Chapman. It lasted into the twentieth century, under the editorship of Dr. Chapman's widow, and kept a free platform to the end. [1717] Pastor W. Baur, Hamburg, Religious Life in Germany during the Wars of Independence, Eng. tr. 1872, p. 41. H. J. Rose and Pusey, in their controversy as to the causes of German rationalism, were substantially at one on this point of fact. Rose, Letter to the Bishop of London, 1829, pp. 19, 150, 161. [1718] Id. p. 481. [1719] Ueber die Religion: Reden an die gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern. These are discussed hereinafter. [1720] Lichtenberger, Hist. of Ger. Theol. in the Nineteenth Cent. Eng. tr. 1889, pp. 122-23. [1721] See the same volume, passim. [1722] Karl von Raumer, Contrib. to the Hist. of the German Universities, Eng. tr. 1859, p. 79. The intellectual tone of W. Baur and K. von Raumer certainly protects them from any charge of "enlightenment." [1723] Laing, Notes of a Traveller, 1842, p. 181. [1724] C. H. Cotterill, Relig. Movements of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, 1849, pp. 39-40. [1725] Id. pp. 27-28, 41-42. [1726] Cp. Laing, as cited, pp. 206-207, 211. [1727] Cotterill, as cited, p. 84. [1728] Cotterill. as cited, pp. 43-47. [1729] Rapport de Ida Altmann, in Almanach de Libre Pensée, 1906, p. 20. [1730] The principal have been: Das freie Wort and Frankfurter Zeitung, Frankfort-on-Main; Der Freidenker, Friedrichshagen, near Berlin; Das freireligiöse Sonntagsblatt, Breslau; Die freie Gemeinde, Magdeburg; Der Atheist, Nuremberg; Menschentum, Gotha; Vossische Zeitung, Berlin; Berliner Volkszeitung, Berlin; Vorwärts (Socialist), Berlin; Weser Zeitung, Bremen; Hartungsche Zeitung, Königsberg; Kölnische Zeitung, Cologne. [1731] Studemund, Der moderne Unglaube in den unteren Ständen, 1901, p. 14. [1732] Id. p. 22. [1733] A. D. McLaren, An Australian in Germany, 1911, pp. 181, 184. [1734] Studemund, Der moderne Unglaube in den unteren Ständen, 1901, pp. 17, 21. [1735] Glossen zu Yves Guyot's und Sigismund Lacroix's "Die wahre Gestalt des Christentums." [1736] Studemund, p. 22. [1737] Id. p. 23. [1738] Id. p. 27. [1739] Id. pp. 37-38. [1740] Id. pp. 40-42. Cp. p. 43. Pastor Studemund cites other inquirers, notably Rade, Gebhardt, Lorenz, and Dietzgen, all to the same effect. [1741] E.g. Pastor A. Kalthoff's Was wissen wir von Jesus? 1901. Since that date the opinion has found new and powerful supporters in Germany. [1742] "The people in the country do not read; in the towns they read little. The journals are little circulated. In Russia one never sees a cabman, an artisan, a labourer reading a newspaper" (Ivan Strannik, La pensée russe contemporaine, 1903, p. 5). [1743] Cp. E. Lavigne, Introduction à l'histoire du nihilisme russe, 1880, pp. 149, 161, 224; Arnaudo, Le Nihilisme, French trans. pp. 37, 58, 61, 63, 77, 86, etc.; Tikhomirov, La Russie, p. 290. [1744] Tikhomirov, La Russie, pp. 325-26, 338-39. [1745] Cp. Priestley, Essay on the First Principles of Government, 2nd ed. 1771, pp. 257-61, and Conway's Centenary History of South Place, pp. 63, 77, 80. [1746] See Rev. Joseph Hunter, An Historical Defence of the Trustees of Lady Henley's Foundations, 1834; The History, Opinions, and Present Legal Position of the English Presbyterians (official), 1834; An Examination and Defence of the Principles of Protestant Dissent, by the Rev. W. Hamilton Drummond, of Dublin, 1842. [1747] Conway, Autobiography, 1905, i, 123. [1748] So Prof. William James, The Will to Believe, etc., 1897, p. 133. [1749] Conway, Emerson at Home and Abroad, 1883, ch. vii. [1750] Hagenbach, Kirchengeschichte des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, 1848, ii, 422. Rationalism seems to have spread soonest in the canton of Zürich. Id. ii, 427. [1751] Grote, Seven Letters concerning the Politics of Switzerland, pp. 34-35. Hagenbach (Kirchengeschichte, ii, 427-28) shows no shame over the insurrection at Zürich. But cp. Beard, in Voices of the Church in Reply to Dr. Strauss, 1845, pp. 17-18. [1752] Cp. the rapport of Ch. Fulpius in the Almanach de Libre Pensée, 1906. [1753] G. M. Theal, South Africa ("Story of the Nations" series), pp. 340, 345. Mr. Theal's view of the mental processes of the Boers is somewhat à priori, and his explanation seems in part inconsistent with his own narrative. [1754] An English acquaintance of my own at Cape Town, who before the war not only was an orthodox believer, but found his chief weekly pleasure in attending church, was so astounded by the general attitude of the clergy on the war that he severed his connection, once for all. Thousands did the same in England. [1755] I write on the strength of personal testimonies spontaneously given to me in South Africa, some of them by clergymen of the Dutch Reformed Church. [1756] See the evidence collected in the pamphlet The Churches and the War, by Alfred Marks. New Age Office, 1905. [1757] For the survey here reduced to outline I am indebted to two Swedish friends. [1758] Cp. Lamon's Life of Lincoln, and J. B. Remsburg's Abraham Lincoln: Was he a Christian? (New York, 1893.) [1759] Remsburg, pp. 318-19. [1760] Personal information. [1761] Remsburg, p. 324. [1762] Of these the New York Truthseeker has been the most energetic and successful. [1763] White, Warfare, i, 81. [1764] White, Warfare, i, 84, 86, 314, 317, 318. [1765] This view is not inconsistent with the fact that popular forms of credulity are also found specially flourishing in the West. Cp. Bryce, The American Commonwealth, 3rd ed. ii, 832-33. [1766] As to the absolute predominance of rationalistic unbelief (in the orthodox sense of the word) in educated Germany in the first third of the century, see the Memoirs of F. Perthes, Eng. tr. 2nd ed. ii, 240-45, 255, 266-75. Despite the various reactions claimed by Perthes and others, it is clear that the tables have never since been turned. Cp. Pearson, Infidelity, pp. 554-59, 569-74. Schleiermacher was charged on his own side with making fatal concessions. Kahnis, Internal Hist. of German Protestantism, Eng. tr. 1856, pp. 210-11; Robins, A Defence of the Faith, 1862, i, 181; and Quinet as there cited. [1767] Aus Schleiermachers Leben: In Briefen, 1860, i, 42, 84. The father's letters, with their unctuous rhetoric, are a revelation of the power of declamatory habit to eliminate sincere thought. [1768] Werke, 1843, i, 140. [1769] See Kabnis, p. 214, and refs. as to his relations with Frau Grunow. "He belonged to the circle of Prince Louis, in which intellect and art, but not morality," reigned. Ib. Compare the sympathetic Lichtenberger, Hist. of Ger. Theol. in the Nineteenth Cent. Eng. tr. 1889, pp. 103-104. It was of course his clerical character that disadvantaged Schleiermacher in such matters. [1770] Lichtenberger, as cited, p. 87. [1771] Lichtenberger, as cited, p. 89. [1772] Id. p. 109. [1773] Id. pp. 123-24. [1774] Id. p. 119. [1775] Id. p. 129. [1776] Strauss, Die Halben und die Ganzen, 1865, p. 18. [1777] For estimates of his work cp. Baur, Kirchengeschichte des 19ten Jahrh., p. 45; Kahnis, as last cited; Pfleiderer, Development of Theology in Germany, 1893, bk. i, ch. iii; bk. ii, ch. ii; Lichtenberger, as cited; and art. by Rev. F. J. Smith in Theol. Review, July, 1869. [1778] Reuss, History of the Canon, Eng. tr. 1890, p. 387. Cp. Strauss, Einleitung in Das Leben Jesu, § 10. [1779] See a good account of the development in Strauss's Introductions to his two Lives of Jesus. [1780] In a volume entitled Offenbarung und Mythologie. [1781] Hebräische Mythologie des alten und neuen Testaments. [1782] Evangeliencommentar, 1800-1804; Leben Jesu, 1828. [1783] Probabilia de Evangelii et Epistolarum Joannis Apostoli indole et origine. [1784] It is thus inaccurate--Strauss himself being the witness--to say, as does Dr. Conybeare (Hist. of N. T. Crit. p. 107), that Strauss was the first German writer to discern the unhistoricity of the Fourth Gospel. [1785] Das Leben Jesu, pref. to first ed. end. [1786] Hausrath, David Friedrich Strauss und die Theologie seiner Zeit, 1878, ii, 233-34. [1787] Pref. to work cited. Eng. tr. 1875, i, 86, 89. [1788] Lichtenberger, as cited, p. 391. [1789] Kritik der evang. Gesch. der Synoptiker, ed. 1846, Vorrede, pp. v-xiii. [1790] Baur, Kirchengesch. des 19ten Jahrh., pp. 388-89. [1791] Gesch. der Politik, Kultur, und Aufklärung des 18ten Jahrh. 4 Bde. 1843-45; Gesch. der französ. Revolution, 3 Bde. 1847. [1792] Russland und das Germanenthum, 1847. [1793] Lichtenberger, p. 378. [1794] Philo, Strauss, Renan, und das Urchristenthum, 1874; Christus und die Cäsaren, 1877. [1795] Das Christenthum und die chr. Kirche, 1854, p. 34. [1796] Das Leben Jesu für das deutsche Volk bearbeitet, § 41, 3te Aufl. p. 254, 1st par. [1797] Id. ib. [1798] Cp. Christianity and Mythology, pt. iii, div. ii, § 6. [1799] Pref. to second Leben Jesu, ed. cited, p. xv. [1800] Zeller, David Friedrich Strauss, 2te Aufl. p. 113. [1801] Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism, 1893, p. 16. Eichhorn seems to have known Astruc's work only at second-hand, yet, without him, it might be contended, Astruc's work would have been completely lost to science. (Id. p. 23.) [1802] See Dr. Cheyne's surveys, which are those of a liberal ecclesiastic--a point of view on which he has since notably advanced. [1803] Cheyne, pp. 187-88. [1804] Kuenen, The Hexateuch, Eng. tr. introd. pp. xiv-xvii. [1805] Dr. Beard, in Voices of the Church in Reply to Strauss, 1845, pp. 16-17. [1806] Zeller, D. F. Strauss, Eng. tr. 1879, p. 56. [1807] See Gunkel, Zum religionsgeschichtlichen Verständnis des Neuen Testaments, 1903, pp. 1-2, note. [1808] Mythen der alten Perser als Quellen christlicher Glaubenslehren, 1835; Der Mystagog, oder Deutung der Geheimenlehren, Symbole und Feste der christlichen Kirche, 1838; Rabbinische Quellen und Parallelen zu neutestamentlichen Schriftstellen, 1839; Biblische Mythologie des alten und neuen Testaments, 1842; Der Festkalender, 1847, etc. [1809] Der Mystagog, 1838, p. vii, note, and p. 241. [1810] See Nork's preamble on Hr. Fr. Daumer, ein kurzweiliger Molochsfänger, in his Biblische Mythologie, Bd. i. [1811] After being acquitted in 1880. The first charge was founded on his Britannica article "Bible"; the second on the article "Hebrew Language and Literature," which appeared after the acquittal. [1812] These utterances were noted for their "vigour and independence" by Kuenen, and also by Dr. Cheyne, who remarks that the earlier work of Kalisch on Exodus (1855) was somewhat behind the critical standpoint of contemporary investigators on the Continent. (Founders of Old Testament Criticism, p. 207.) [1813] See his Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament, pref. "It is the spirit of compromise that I chiefly dread for our younger students," wrote Dr. Cheyne in 1893 (Founders, p. 247). His courteous criticism of Dr. Driver does not fail to point the moral in that writer's direction. [1814] Conrad, The German Universities for the Last Fifty Years, Eng. tr. 1885, p. 74. See p. 100 as to the financial measures taken; and p. 105 as to the essentially financial nature of the "reaction." [1815] Id. p. 103. [1816] Id. p. 104. [1817] Id. p. 112. See pp. 118-19 as to Austria. [1818] Id. pp. 97-98. [1819] White, Warfare, i, 239. In February, 1914, on a given Sunday, out of a Protestant population of over two millions, only 35,000 persons attended church in Berlin. Art. on "Creeds, Heresy-Hunting, and Secession in German Protestantism To-day," in Hibbert Journal for July, 1914, p. 722. [1820] See Haeckel's Freedom in Science and Teaching, Eng. tr. with pref. by Huxley, 1879, pp. xix, xxv, xxvii, 89-90; and Clifford. [1821] Büchner, for straightforwardly renouncing his connection with the State Church a generation ago, was blamed by many who held his philosophic opinions. In our own day, there has arisen a considerable Austrittsbewegung, or "Withdrawal Movement"; while creedless clerics strive to remain inside a Church bent on ejecting them. A. D. McLaren, in Hibbert Journal for July, 1914, art. cited. [1822] Tracts for the Times, vol. ii, ed. 1839; Records of the Church, No. xxiv. [1823] Tracts for the Times, No. 3. [1824] Id. No. 32. [1825] Cross's Life, 1-vol. ed. p. 79. [1826] Account of the Printed Text of the Greek N. T., 1854, pref. and pp. 47, 112-13, 266. [1827] A third brother, Charles Robert, became an atheist. This, as well as his psychic infirmity, insures him sufficiently severe treatment at the hands of his theistic brother in the introduction to the latter's Contributions Chiefly to the Early History of the late Cardinal Newman, 1891. [1828] Latterly abandoned by the learned author, who before his death disclosed his name--W. R. Cassels. [1829] See the testimonies of Pfleiderer, The Development of Theology since Kant, Eng. tr. 1890, p. 397, and Dr. Samuel Davidson, Introd. to the Study of the New Testament, pref. to 2nd ed. [1830] Ptie. i, liv. i, ch. v. [1831] Id. i, liv. iii, ch. ii. [1832] It is further to be remembered, however, that Mr. Matthew Arnold saw fit to defend Chateaubriand, calling him "great," when his fame was being undone by common sense. [1833] C. Wordsworth, Diary in France, 1845, pp. 55-56, 124, 204. [1834] Essais sur la philosophie et la religion, 1845, p. 193. [1835] Histoire, tom. vii, Renaissance, introd. § 6. [1836] M. Faguet writes (Études sur le XIXe Siècle, p. 352) that "Michelet croit à l'âme plus qu'à Dieu, encore que profondément déiste. Les théories philosophiques modernes lui étaient pénibles." This may be true, though, hardly any evidence is offered on the latter head; but when M. Faguet writes, "Est-il chrétien? Je n'en sais rien ... mais il sympathise avec la pensée chrétienne," he seems to ignore the preface to the later editions of the Histoire de la révolution française. To pronounce Christianity, as Michelet there does, essentially anti-democratic, and therefore hostile to the Revolution, was, for him, to condemn it. [1837] Letter to Sainte-Beuve, cited by Levallois, Sainte-Beuve, 1872, p. 14. [1838] Lanson, Hist. de la litt. française, p. 951. [1839] "L'incrédulité de Sainte-Beuve était sincère, radicale, et absolue. Elle a été invariable et invincible pendant trente ans. Voilà la vérité" (Jules Levallois, Sainte-Beuve, 1872, préf. p. xxxiii). M. Levallois, who writes as a theist, was one of Sainte-Beuve's secretaries. M. Zola, who spoke of the famous critic's rationalism as "une négation n'osant conclure," admitted later that it was hardly possible for him to speak more boldly than he did (Documents Littéraires, 1881, pp. 314, 325-28). And M. Lavisse has shown (as cited above, p. 406) with what courage he supported Duruy in the Senate against the attacks of the exasperated clerical party. See also his letter of 1867 to Louis Viardot in the avant-propos to that writer's Libre Examen: Apologie d'un Incrédule, 6e édit. 1881, p. 3. [1840] That Wordsworth was not an orthodox Christian is fairly certain. Both in talk and in poetry he put forth a pantheistic doctrine. Cp. Benn, Hist. of Eng. Rationalism, i, 227-29; and Coleridge's letter of Aug. 8, 1820, in Allsopp's Letters, etc., of S. T. Coleridge, 3rd ed. 1864, pp. 56-57. [1841] Leslie Stephen, George Eliot, p. 27. [1842] Mr. Benn (Hist. of Eng. Rationalism, i, 226, 309 sq.) has some interesting discussions on Scott's relation to religion, but does not take full account of biographical data and of Scott's utterances outside of his novels. The truth probably is that Scott's brain was one with "watertight compartments." [1843] At the age of twenty-five we find him writing to Gifford: "I am no bigot to infidelity, and did not expect that because I doubted the immortality of man I should be charged with denying the existence of God" (letter of June 18, 1813). [1844] By the Court of Chancery, in 1822, the year in which copyright was refused to the Lectures of Dr. Lawrence. Harriet Martineau, History of the Peace, ii, 87. [1845] W. Sharp, Life of Severn, 1892, pp. 86-87, 90, 117-18. [1846] On reading Lamb's severe rejoinder, Southey, in distress, apologized, and Lamb at once relented (Life and Letters of John Rickman, by Orlo Williams, 1912, p. 225). Hence the curtailment of Lamb's letter in the ordinary editions of his works. [1847] William Allingham: A Diary, 1907, p. 253. Cp. p. 268. [1848] Id. p. 232. [1849] Allingham, as cited, p. 254. [1850] Id. p. 211. Carlyle said the same thing to Moncure Conway. [1851] Cp. Prof. Bain's J. S. Mill, pp. 157, 191; Froude's London Life of Carlyle, i, 458. [1852] Bain, p. 128. [1853] See Brougham's letters in the Correspondence of Macvey Napier, 1879, pp. 333-37. Brougham is deeply indignant, not at the fact, but at the indiscreet revelation of it--as also at the similar revelation concerning Pitt (p. 334). [1854] My Relations with Carlyle, 1903, p. 2. [1855] Morning Post, March 9, 1849. [1856] Germany, by Bisset Hawkins, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Inspector of Prisons, late Professor at King's College, etc., 1838, p. 171. [1857] History, ch. xix. Student's ed. ii, 411. [1858] Sometimes he gives a clue; and we find Brougham privately denouncing him for his remark (Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, 6th par.) that to try "without the help of revelation to prove the immortality of man" is vain. "It is next thing to preaching atheism," shouts Brougham (Letter of October 20, 1840, in Correspondence of Macvey Napier, p. 333), who at the same time hotly insisted that Cuvier had made an advance in Natural Theology by proving that there must have been one divine interposition after the creation of the world--to create species. (Id. p. 337.) [1859] In 1830, for instance, we find a Scottish episcopal D.D. writing that "Infidelity has had its day; it, depend upon it, will never be revived--NO MAN OF GENIUS WILL EVER WRITE ANOTHER WORD IN ITS SUPPORT." Morehead, Dialogues on Natural and Revealed Religion, p. 266. [1860] Cp. the author's Modern Humanists, pp. 189-94. [1861] Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System (1797), 8th ed. p. 368. Wilberforce points with chagrin to the superiority of Mohammedan writers in these matters. [1862] "In point of tendency I should class her books among the most irreligious I ever read," delineating good characters in every aspect, "and all this without the remotest allusion to Christianity, the only true religion." Cited in O. Gregory's Brief Memoir of Robert Hall, 1833, p. 242. The context tells how Miss Edgeworth avowed that she had not thought religion necessary in books meant for the upper classes. [1863] Art. "The Faith of Richard Jefferies," by H. S. Salt, in Westminster Review, August, 1905, rep. as pamphlet by the R. P. A., 1906. [1864] The writer of these scurrilities is Mr. Bramwell Booth, War Cry, May 27, 1905. [1865] Cp. Mrs. Sutherland Orr's article on "The Religious Opinions of Robert Browning" in the Contemporary Review, December, 1891, p. 878; and the present writer's Tennyson and Browning as Teachers, 1903. [1866] Apropos of his Theatrocrat, which he pronounced "the most profound and original of English books." Mr. Davidson in a newspaper article proclaimed himself on socio-political grounds an anti-Christian. "I take the first resolute step out of Christendom," was his claim (Daily Chronicle, December 20, 1905). [1867] See Talks with Emerson, by C. J. Woodbury, 1890, pp. 93-94. [1868] It was in his old age that Whitman tended most to "theize" Nature. In conversation with Dr. Moncure Conway, he once used the expression that "the spectacle of a mouse is enough to stagger a sextillion of infidels." Dr. Conway replied: "And the sight of the cat playing with the mouse is enough to set them on their feet again"; whereat Whitman tolerantly smiled. [1869] Kahnis, Internal Hist. of Ger. Protestantism, Eng. tr. 1856, p. 78. [1870] Geständnisse, end (Werke, ed. 1876, iv, 59). [1871] Zur Gesch. der Relig. und Philos. in Werke, ed. cited, iii, 80. [1872] See Ernest Newman's Study of Wagner, 1899, p. 390, note, as to the vagueness of Wagnerians on the subject. [1873] Tikhomirov, La Russie, 2e édit. p. 343. [1874] See Comte de Voguë's Le roman russe, p. 218, as to his propaganda of atheism. [1875] Arnaudo, Le Nihilisme et les Nihilistes, French tr. 50. [1876] Tikhomirov, p. 344. [1877] "Il [Tourguénief] était libre-penseur, et détestât l'apparat religieux d'une manière toute particulière." I. Pavlovsky, Souvenirs sur Tourguénief, 1887, p. 242. [1878] See the article "Un Précurseur d'Henrik Ibsen, Soeren Kierkegaard," in the Revue de Paris, July 1, 1901. [1879] Prof. A. D. White, Hist. of the Warfare of Science with Theology, 1896, i, 17, 22. [1880] The phrase is used by a French Protestant pastor. La vérité chrétienne et la doute moderne (Conférences), 1879, pp. 24-25. [1881] Antiquities of the Jews, by William Brown, D.D., Edinburgh, 1826, i, 121-22. Brown quotes "from a friend" a demonstration of the monstrous consequences of a stoppage of the earth's rotation. [1882] Theopneustia: The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, Eng. trans. Edinburgh, 1850, pp. 246-49. Gaussen elaborately argues that if eighteen minutes were allowed for the stoppage of the earth's rotation, no shock would occur. Finally, however, he argues that there may have been a mere refraction of the sun's rays--an old theory, already set forth by Brown. [1883] Dr. C. R. Edmonds, Introd. to rep. of Leland's View of the Deistical Writers, Tegg's ed. 1837, p. xxiii. [1884] The work consists of twelve "Mémoires" or treatises, six of which were read in 1796-1797 at the Institute. They appeared in book form in 1802. [1885] Rapports, Ier Mémoire, § ii, near end. (Éd. 1843, p. 73.) Cp. Préf. (pp. 46-47). [1886] Ed. cited, p. 54. Cp. p. 207, note. [1887] Not published till 1824. [1888] Ueberweg, ii, 339. [1889] Cp. Luchaire, as cited, p. 36. [1890] Lange, Gesch. des Materialismus, ii, 134. [1891] "Since Cabanis, the referring back of mental functions to the nervous system has remained dominant in physiology, whatever individual physiologists may have thought about final causes" (Lange, ii, 70). Compare the tribute of Cabanis's orthodox editor Cerise (ed. 1843, Introd. pp. xlii-iii). [1892] Rapports, IIe Mémoire, near end. (Ed. cited, p. 122.) [1893] See the already cited introduction of Cerise, who solved the problem religiously by positing "a force which executes the plans of God without our knowledge or intervention" (p. xix). He goes on to lament the pantheism of Dr. Dubois (whose Examen des doctrines de Cabanis, Gall, et Broussais (1842) was put forward as a vindication of the "spiritual" principle), and of the German school of physiology represented by Oken and Burdach. [1894] Lawrence's Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, 8th ed. 1840, pp. 1-3. The aspersion of Abernethy is typical of the orthodox malignity of the time. Cabanis in his preface had expressly contended for the all-importance of morals. The orthodox Dr. Cerise, who edited his book in 1843, while acknowledging the high character of Cabanis, thought fit to speak of "the materialists" as "interested in abasing man" (introd. p. xxi). On the score of fear of demoralization, the champions of "spirit" themselves exhibited the maximum of baseness. [1895] Lawrence's Lectures, p. 9, note. [1896] Id. pp. 168-69. [1897] Yet Lawrence was created a baronet two months before his death. So much progress had been made in half a century. [1898] Work cited, pp. 355 sq., 375 sq. The tone is at times expressive of a similar attitude towards historical religion--e.g.: "Human testimony is of so little value ... that it cannot be received with sufficient caution. To doubt is the beginning of wisdom." Id. p. 269. [1899] Cp. Whewell, Hist. of the Inductive Sciences, 3rd ed. iii, 505. [1900] White, as cited, i, 222-23, gives a selection of the language in general use among theologians on the subject. [1901] The early policy of the Geological Society of London (1807), which professed to seek for facts and to disclaim theories as premature (cp. Whewell, iii, 428; Buckle, iii, 392), was at least as much socially as scientifically prudential. [1902] See the excellent monograph of W. M. Mackenzie, Hugh Miller: A Critical Study, 1905, ch. vi; and cp. Spencer's essay on Illogical Geology--Essays, vol. i; and Baden Powell's Christianity without Judaism, 1857, p. 254 sq. Miller's friend Dick, the Thurso naturalist, being a freethinker, escaped such error. (Mackenzie, pp. 161-64.) [1903] Cp. the details given by Whewell, iii, 406-408, 411-13, 506-507, as to early theories of a sound order, all of which came to nothing. Steno, a Dane resident in Italy in the seventeenth century, had reached non-Scriptural and just views on several points. Cp. White, Hist. of the Warfare of Science with Theology, i, 215. Leonardo da Vinci and Frascatorio had reached them still earlier. Above, vol. i, p. 371. [1904] Metamorphoses, lib. xv. [1905] He had just completed a work on the subject at his death. Cp. Mackenzie, Hugh Miller, as cited, pp. 134-35, 146-47. [1906] Christianity and Judaism, pp. 256-57. [1907] See Charles Darwin's Historical Sketch prefixed to the Origin of Species. [1908] Meding, as cited by Darwin, 6th ed. i, p. xv. Goethe seems to have had his general impulse from Kielmeyer, who also taught Cuvier. Virchow, Göthe als Naturforscher, 1861, Beilage x. [1909] Memoirs of Newton, i, 131. Cp. More Worlds than One, 1854, pp. vi, 226. [1910] See Darwin's Sketch, as cited. [1911] Letter of March 16, 1845, in Life of Whewell, by Mrs. Stair Douglas, 2nd ed. 1882, pp. 318-19. If this statement be true as to Owen, he shuffled badly in his correspondence with the author of the Vestiges. See the Life of Sir Richard Owen, 1894, i, 251. [1912] Mackenzie, Hugh Miller, p. 185. [1913] Foot-Prints of the Creator, end. [1914] Oxford Essays, 1856, p. 5. [1915] Hist. of the Inductive Sciences, 3rd ed. iii, 479-83; Life, as above cited. Whewell is said to have refused to allow a copy of the Origin of Species to be placed in the Trinity College Library. White, i, 84. [1916] White, i, 70 sq. [1917] Edward Clodd, Thomas Henry Huxley, 1902, pp. 19-20. [1918] Luthardt, Fundamental Truths of Christianity, Eng. tr. 1865, p. 74. [1919] See the many examples cited by White. As late as 1885 the Scottish clergyman Dr. Lee is quoted as calling the Darwinians "gospellers of the gutter," and charging on their doctrine "utter blasphemy against the divine and human character of our incarnate Lord" (White, i, 83). Carlyle is quoted as calling Darwin "an apostle of dirt-worship." His admirers appear to regard him as having made amends by admitting that Darwin was personally charming. [1920] E.g. the Education, small ed. pp. 41, 155. [1921] I am informed on good authority that in later life Huxley changed his views on the subject. He had abundant cause. As early as 1879 he is found complaining (pref. to Eng. tr. of Haeckel's Freedom in Science and Teaching, p. xvii) of the mass of "falsities at present foisted upon the young in the name of the Church." [1922] See a choice collection in the pamphlet What Men of Science say about God and Religion, by A. E. Proctor; Catholic Truth Society. [1923] Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. 1888, iii, 179. [1924] It is doubtful whether C. A. Walckenaer should be so described. His Essai sur l'histoire de l'espèce humaine (1798) has real scientific value. [1925] See the author's Buckle and his Critics, 1895. [1926] Europe during the Middle Ages, 11th ed. i, 377. [1927] Cp. his Decline of the Roman Republic, 1864, i, 345-47; and note on p. 447 of his translation of Plutarch's Brutus, Bohn ed. of Lives, vol. iv. [1928] See The Dynamics of Religion, pp. 227-33. [1929] It is difficult to understand the claim made for Hegel by his translator, the Rev. E. B. Speirs, that any student of his lectures on the Philosophy of Religion "will be constrained to admit that in them we have the true 'sources' of the evolution principle as applied to the study of religion" (edit. pref. to trans. of work cited, i, p. viii). To say nothing of Fontenelle and De Brosses, Constant had laid out the whole subject before Hegel. [1930] Primitive Culture, i. 2. [1931] Life and Letters, i, 151. [1932] Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. 1876-96. [1933] Cp. Saintes, Hist. crit. du rationalisme en Allemagne, p. 323. [1934] Id. pp. 322-24. [1935] As to Hegel's mental development cp. Dr. Beard on "Strauss, Hegel, and their Opinions," in Voices of the Church in Reply to Strauss, 1845, pp. 3-4. [1936] E. Caird, Hegel, 1883, p. 94. [1937] E.g. Philos. of Religion, introd. Eng. tr. i, 38-40. [1938] Id. p. 41. Cp. pp. 216-17. [1939] Id. p. 219. [1940] Cp. Morell, as cited, and pp. 195-96; and Feuerbach, as summarized by Baur, Kirchengeschichte des 19ten Jahrh. p. 390. [1941] Cp. Michelet as cited by Morell, ii, 192-93. [1942] As to Strauss cp. Beard, as above cited, pp. 21-22, 30; and Zeller, David Friedrich Strauss, Eng. tr. pp. 35, 47-48, 71-72, etc. [1943] As to Vatke see Pfleiderer, as cited, p. 252 sq.; Cheyne, Founders of O. T. Criticism, 1893, p. 135. [1944] E.g. Dr. Hutchison Stirling. See his trans. of Schwegler's Handbook of the History of Philosophy, 6th ed. p. 438 sq. [1945] Baur, last cit. p. 389. [1946] Geständnisse, Werke, iv, 33. Cp. iii, 110. [1947] Cp. Hagenbach, pp. 369-72; Farrar, Crit. Hist. of Freethought, pp. 387-88. On Bauer's critical development and academic career see Baur, Kirchengesch. des 19ten Jahrh. pp. 386-89. [1948] Die Selbstzersetzung des Christenthums und die Religion der Zukunft, 2te Aufl. 1874 trans. in Eng. as The Religion of the Future, 1886. [1949] See Schopenhauer's dialogues on Religion and Immortality, and his essay on The Christian System (Eng. tr. by T. B. Samplers), and Nietzsche's Antichrist. The latter work is discussed by the writer in Essays in Sociology, vol. ii. [1950] Prof. Seth Pringle-Pattison, who passes many just criticisms on their work (Philos. of Relig. in Kant and Hegel, rep. with The Philosophical Radicals), does not seem to suspect this determination. [1951] Baur gives a good summary, Kirchengeschichte, pp. 390-94. [1952] "M. Feuerbach et la nouvelle école hégélienne," in Études d'histoire religieuse. [1953] A. Kohut, Ludwig Feuerbach, sein Leben und seine Werke, 1909, p. 48. [1954] Die Halben und die Ganzen, p. 50. "Feuerbach a ruiné le système de Hegel et fondé la positivisme." A. Lévy, La philosophie de Feuerbach et son influence sur la litt. allemande, 1904, introd. p. xxii. [1955] E.g. "All knowledge, all conviction, all piety ... is based on the principle that in the spirit, as such, the consciousness of God exists immediately with the consciousness of itself." Philos. of Relig. Eng. tr. introd. i. 42-43. [1956] Essence of Christianity, Eng. tr. 1854, p. 12. [1957] Kirchengeschichte des 19ten Jahrhunderts, pp. 393-94. [1958] Cp. A. Lévy, as cited, ch. iv. [1959] Id. ch. ii. [1960] Reden über Religion, ihr Entstehen und Vergehen, an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verehrern--a parody of the title of the famous work of Schleiermacher. [1961] Work cited, p. 119. [1962] Büchner expressly rejected the term "materialism" because of its misleading implications or connotations. Cp. in Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner's Charles Bradlaugh the discussion in Pt. ii, ch. i, § 3 (by J. M. R.). [1963] While the cognate works of Carl Vogt and Moleschott have gone out of print, Büchner's, recast again and again, continues to be republished. [1964] Cp. Paul Deschanel, Figures Littéraires, 1889, pp. 130-32, 171-73; Lévy-Bruhl, The Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Eng. tr. 1903, p. 190; and Ch. Adam, La Philosophie en France, 1894. p. 228. [1965] Adam, as cited, pp. 227-30. [1966] In his Mélanges philosophiques (1833), Eng. trans. (incomplete) by George Ripley, Philos. Essays of Th. Jouffroy, Edinburgh, 1839, ii,

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1. Chapter 1 2. 1. Influence of Montaigne and Charron. Gui Patin. Naudé. La 3. 4. Vogue of freethinking. Malherbe. Joan Fontanier. Théophile 4. 15. Developments in France. The polemic of Abbadie. Persecution 5. 16. St. Evremond. Regnard. La Bruyère. Spread of 6. 1. Boulainvilliers. Strifes in the Church. Fénelon and Ramsay. 7. 11. Progress of tolerance. Marie Huber. Resistance of bigotry. 8. 13. New politics. The less famous freethinkers: Burigny; 9. 14. N.-A. Boulanger. Dumarsais. Prémontval. Solidity of much 10. 18. Freethought in the Académie. Beginnings in classical 11. 22. Study of Nature. Fontenelle. Lenglet du Fresnoy. De 12. 27. The conventional myth and the facts. Necker. Abbé Grégoire. 13. 28. Religious and political forces of revolt. The polemic 14. 30. The polemic of Mallet du Pan. Saner views of Barante. 15. 33. Napoleon 292 16. 1. Moral Decline under Lutheranism. Freethought before the 17. 12. English and French influences. The scientific movement. 18. 14. Mauvillon. Nicolai. Riem. Schade. Basedow. Eberhard. 19. 18. Vogue of deism. Wieland. Cases of Isenbiehl and Steinbuhler. 20. 22. Influence of Kant. The sequel. Hamann. Chr. A. Crusius. 21. 25. Austria. Jahn. Joseph II. Beethoven 351 22. 1. Course of the Reformation. Subsequent wars. 23. 5. Upper-class indifference. Gustavus III. Kjellgren and 24. 6. Revival of thought in Denmark. Struensee. Mary 25. 2. Russia. Nikon. Peter the Great. Kantemir. Catherine 363 26. 3. Subsequent scientific thought. General revival of 27. 4. Beccaria. Algarotti. Filangieri. Galiani. Genovesi. 28. 9. Portugal. Pombal 377 29. 6. Palmer. Houston. Deism and Unitarianism 385 30. 3. Pietist persecution. Richard Carlile. John Clarke. 31. 7. Charles Bradlaugh and Secularism. Imprisonment of 32. 8. New literary developments. Lecky. Conway. Winwood 33. 9. Freethought in France. Social schemes. Fourier. 34. 10. Bigotry in Spain. Popular freethought in Catholic 35. 11. Fluctuations in Germany. Persistence of religious 36. 15. Clerical rationalism in Protestant countries. 37. 17. The United States. Ingersoll. Lincoln. Stephen 38. 1. Rationalism in Germany. The Schleiermacher reaction: 39. 7. Strauss's second Life of Jesus. His politics. His 40. 8. Fluctuating progress of criticism. Important issues 41. 10. Falling-off in German candidates for the ministry as in 42. 11. Attack and defence in England. The Tractarian reaction. 43. 12. New Testament criticism in France. Renan and Havet 439 44. 3. Béranger. De Musset. Victor Hugo. Leconte de Lisle. The 45. 4. Poetry in England. Shelley. Coleridge. The romantic 46. 7. Orthodoxy and conformity. Bain's view of Carlyle, 47. 8. The literary influence. Ruskin. Arnold. Intellectual 48. 9. English fiction from Miss Edgeworth to the present 49. 15. The Scandinavian States 457 50. 1. Progress in cosmology. Laplace and modern astronomy. 51. 8. Triumph of evolutionism. Spencer. Clifford. Huxley 466 52. 1. Eighteenth-century sociology. Salverte. Charles 53. 2. Progress in England. Orthodoxy of Hallam. Carlyle. 54. 4. Mythology and anthropology. Tylor. Spencer. Avebury. 55. 9. Philosophy in Britain. Bentham. James Mill. Grote. 56. 12. J. S. Mill 489 57. CHAPTER XIII 58. 1638. Kepler's indecisive Mysterium Cosmographicum appeared only in 59. 1. The Latin letter of Gaspar Schopp (Scioppius), dated February 60. 2. There are preserved two extracts from Roman news-letters 61. 3. There has been found, by a Catholic investigator, a double entry 62. episode is well vouched; and the argument from the silence of 63. 1649. As M. Desdouits staked his case on the absence of allusion to 64. CHAPTER XIV 65. 1662. [376] Under the Commonwealth (1656) James Naylor, the Quaker, 66. 1683. Dr. Rust, Discourse on the Use of Reason in ... Religion, 67. 1685. Duke of Buckingham, A Short Discourse upon the Reasonableness 68. 1691. John Ray, Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the 69. 1695. John Edwards, B.D., Some Thoughts concerning the Several Causes 70. 1696. Sir C. Wolseley, The Unreasonableness of Atheism Demonstrated. 71. 1696. Dr. Nichols' Conference with a Theist. Pt. I. (Answer to 72. 1696. J. Edwards, D.D., A Demonstration of the Evidence and 73. 1696. E. Pelling, Discourse ... on the Existence of God. (Pt. II in 74. 1697. Stephen Eye, A Discourse concerning Natural and Revealed 75. 1697. Bishop Gastrell, The Certainty and Necessity of Religion. 76. 1698. Dr. J. Harris, A Refutation of Atheistical Objections. (Boyle 77. 1698. Thos. Emes, The Atheist turned Deist, and the Deist turned 78. 1699. J. Bradley, An Impartial View of the Truth of Christianity. 79. 1700. Bishop Bradford, The Credibility of the Christian Revelation. 80. 1702. Dr. Stanhope, The Truth and Excellency of the Christian 81. 1705. Ed. Pelling, Discourse concerning the existence of God. Part 82. 1705. Dr. Samuel Clarke, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes 83. 1706. Th. Wise, B.D., A Confutation of the Reason and Philosophy of 84. 1706. T. Oldfield, Mille Testes; against the Atheists, Deists, and 85. 1707. Dr. J. Hancock, Arguments to prove the Being of a God. (Boyle 86. CHAPTER XV 87. 1. We have seen France, in the first quarter of the seventeenth 88. 2. On the other hand, the resort on the part of the Catholics to a 89. 3. Between the negative development of the doctrine of Montaigne and 90. 4. The general tendency is revealed on the one hand by the series 91. 5. Equally freethinking was his brilliant predecessor and early 92. 6. Even in the apologetic reasoning of the greatest French prose 93. 7. A similar fatality attended the labours of the learned Huet, Bishop 94. 8. Meanwhile the philosophy of Descartes, if less strictly propitious 95. 9. Yet another philosophic figure of the reign of Louis XIV, the Jesuit 96. 10. Yet another new departure was made in the France of Louis XIV 97. 11. Such an evolution could not occur in France without affecting the 98. 12. As Meyer was one of the most intimate friends of Spinoza, being 99. 13. The appearance in 1678 of a Dutch treatise "against all sorts of 100. 14. No greater service was rendered in that age to the spread of 101. 15. Meantime, Spinoza had reinforced the critical movement in France, 102. 16. Of the new Epicureans, the most famous in his day was 103. CHAPTER XVI 104. 405. It is noteworthy that a volume of controversial sermons 105. 1752. The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken. Four vols. 106. 1765. W. Dudgeon, Philosophical Works (reprints of those of 1732, 107. 1772. E. Evanson, The Doctrines of a Trinity and the 108. 1773. ---- Three Discourses (1. Upon the Man after God's own 109. 1781. W. Nicholson, The Doubts of the Infidels. (Rep. by R. 110. 1782. W. Turner, Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a 111. 1785. Dr. G. Hoggart Toulmin, The Antiquity and Duration of the 112. 1792. E. Evanson, The Dissonance of the Four Evangelists. 113. 1795. Dr. J. A. O'Keefe, On the Progress of the Human 114. 1797. John C. Davies, The Scripturian's Creed. Prosecuted and 115. 1797. The latter writer states (2nd ed. p. 126) that "infidelity is 116. CHAPTER XVII 117. 1. The fruits of the intellectual movement of the seventeenth 118. 2. At the same time the continuous output of apologetics testified 119. 3. There was thus no adaptation on the side of the Church to the forces 120. 4. As the new intellectual movement began to find expression, then, it 121. 5. A continuous development may be traced throughout the 122. 6. One of the most comprehensive freethinking works of the century, the 123. 7. Apart from this direct influence, too, others of the cloth bore 124. 8. With the ground prepared as we have seen, freethought was bound 125. 9. It is thus a complete mistake on the part of Buckle to affirm 126. 10. The rest of Voltaire's long life was a sleepless and dexterous 127. 11. It is difficult to realize how far the mere demand for 128. 12. A new era of propaganda and struggle had visibly begun. In 129. 1700. Lettre d'Hypocrate à Damagète, attributed to the Comte de 130. 1700. [Claude Gilbert.] Histoire de Calejava, ou de l'isle des hommes 131. 1704. [Gueudeville.] Dialogues de M. le Baron de la Houtan et d'un 132. 1709. Lettre sur l'enthousiasme (Fr. tr. of Shaftesbury, by Samson). 133. 1710. [Tyssot de Patot, Symon.] Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé. 134. 1710. Essai sur l'usage de la raillerie (Fr. tr. of Shaftesbury, by 135. 1712. [Deslandes, A. F. B.] Reflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont 136. 1714. Discours sur la liberté de penser [French tr. of Collins's 137. 1720. Same work rep. under the double title: De tribus impostoribus: 138. 1724. [Lévesque de Burigny.] Histoire de la philosophie payenne. La 139. 1730. [Bernard, J.-F.] Dialogues critiques et philosophiques. "Par 140. 1731. Réfutation des erreurs de Benoît de Spinoza, par Fénelon, le P. 141. 1734. [Voltaire.] Lettres philosophiques. 4 edd. within the year. 142. 1734. [Longue, Louis-Pierre de.] Les Princesses Malabares, ou le 143. 1737. Marquis D'Argens. La Philosophie du Bon Sens. (Berlin: 8th 144. 1738. [Marie Huber.] Lettres sur la religion essentielle à l'homme, 145. 1739. ----, Suite to the foregoing, "servant de réponse aux 146. 1741. [Deslandes.] Pigmalion, ou la Statue animée. [Condemned to be 147. 1741. ----, De la Certitude des connaissances humaines ... traduit de 148. 1743. Nouvelles libertés de penser. Amsterdam. [Edited by Dumarsais. 149. 1745. [Lieut. De la Serre.] La vraie religion traduite de l'Ecriture 150. 1745. [La Mettrie.] Histoire naturelle de l'âme. [Condemned to be 151. 1748. [P. Estève.] L'Origine de l'Univers expliquée par un principe 152. 1748. [Benoît de Maillet.] Telliamed, ou Entretiens d'un philosophe 153. 1751. [Mirabaud, J. B. de.] Le Monde, son origine et son antiquité. 154. 1752. [Gouvest, J. H. Maubert de.] Lettres Iroquoises. "Irocopolis, 155. 1752. [Génard, F.] L'École de l'homme, ou Parallèle des Portraits du 156. 1753. [Baume-Desdossat, Canon of Avignon.] La Christiade. [Book 157. 1753. Astruc, Jean. Conjectures sur les mémoires originaux dont il 158. 1754. Prémontval, A. I. le Guay de. Le Diogène de d'Alembert, ou 159. 1754. Burigny, J. L. Théologie payenne. 2 tom. (New ed. of his 160. 1754. Beausobre, L. de (the younger). Pyrrhonisme du Sage. Berlin. 161. 1755. Recherches philosophiques sur la liberté de l'homme. Trans. of 162. 1755. Analyse raisonnée de Bayle. 4 tom. [By the Abbé de Marsy. 163. 1755. [Deleyre.] Analyse de la philosophie de Bacon. (Largely an 164. 1757. Prémontval. Vues Philosophiques. (Amsterdam.) 165. 1759. Translation of Hume's Natural History of Religion and 166. 1761. [N.-A. Boulanger. [1020]] Recherches sur l'origine du 167. 1761. Rep. of De la Serre's La vraie religion as Examen de la 168. 1761. [D'Holbach.] Le Christianisme dévoilé. [Imprint: "Londres, 169. 1762. Rousseau. Émile. [Publicly burned at Paris and at Geneva. 170. 1762. Robinet, J. B. De la nature. Vol. i. (Vol. ii in 1764; iii and 171. 1764. [Voltaire.] Dictionnaire philosophique portatif. [1021] [First 172. 1764. Lettres secrètes de M. de Voltaire. [Holland. Collection of 173. 1764. L'Évangile de la Raison. Ouvrage posthume de M. D. M----y. [Ed. 174. 1765. Recueil Nécessaire, avec L'Évangile de la Raison, 2 tom. 175. 1766. Boulanger, N. A. L'Antiquité dévoilée. [1023] 3 tom. [Recast by 176. 1766. Voyage de Robertson aux terres australes. Traduit sur le 177. 1766. De Prades. Abrégé de l'histoire ecclésiastique de Fleury. 178. 1766. [Burigny.] Examen critique des Apologistes de la religion 179. 1766. [Abbé Millot.] Histoire philosophique de l'homme. [Naturalistic 180. 1767. Doutes sur la religion (attributed to Gueroult de Pival), suivi 181. 1767. Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe. [Published under the name of 182. 1767. [D'Holbach.] L'Imposture sacerdotale, ou Recueil de pièces sur 183. 1767. Reprint of Le Christianisme dévoilé. [Condemned to be burnt, 184. 1768. Meister, J. H. De l'origine des principes religieux. 185. 1768. Catalogue raisonné des esprits forts, depuis le curé 186. 1768. [D'Holbach.] La Contagion sacrée, ou histoire naturelle de 187. 1768. ---- Lettres philosophiques sur l'origine des préjugés, 188. 1768. ---- Lettres à Eugénie, ou preservatif contre les 189. 1768. ---- Théologie Portative. "Par l'abbé Bernier." [Also 190. 1768. Traité des trois Imposteurs. (See 1719 and 1720.) Rep. 191. 1768. Naigeon, J. A. Le militaire philosophe. [Adaptation of a 192. 1768. Examen des prophéties qui servent de fondement à la 193. 1768. Robinet. Considérations philosophiques. 194. 1769. [Diderot. Also ascribed to Castillon.] Histoire générale 195. 1769. [Mirabaud.] Opinions des anciens sur les juifs, and 196. 1769. [Isoard-Delisle, otherwise Delisle de Sales.] De la 197. 1769. [Seguier de Saint-Brisson.] Traité des Droits de Génie, 198. 1770. ---- Examen critique de la vie et des ouvrages de Saint 199. 1770. ---- Essai sur les Préjugés. (Not by Dumarsais, whose name 200. 1770. Recueil Philosophique. 2 tom. [Edited by Naigeon. Contains 201. 1770. Analyse de Bayle. Rep. of the four vols. of De Marsy, with 202. 1770. Raynal (with Diderot and others). Histoire philosophique 203. 1772. Le Bon Sens. [Adaptation from Meslier by Diderot and 204. 1773. Helvétius. De l'Homme. Ouvrage posthume. 2 tom. [Condemned to 205. 1774. Abauzit, F. Réflexions impartiales sur les Évangiles, suivies 206. 1774. New edition of Theologie Portative. 2 tom. [Condemned to be 207. 1775. [Voltaire.] Histoire de Jenni, ou Le Sage et l'Athée. [Attack 208. 1777. Examen critique du Nouveau Testament, "par M. Fréret." [Not 209. 1779. Vie d'Apollonius de Tyane par Philostrate, avec les 210. 1780. Clootz, Anacharsis. La Certitude des preuves du Mahométisme. 211. 1780. Second ed. of Raynal's Histoire philosophique, with 212. 1784. Pougens, M. C. J. de. Récréations de philosophie et de 213. 1788. Pastoret. Moïse considéré comme legislateur et comme 214. 1788. Maréchal. Almanach des honnêtes gens. [Author imprisoned; 215. 1789. Cerutti (Jesuit Father). Bréviaire Philosophique, ou Histoire 216. 1795. La Fable de Christ dévoilée; ou Lettre du muphti de 217. 1798. Maréchal. Pensées libres sur les prêtres. A Rome, et se 218. 13. It will be noted that after 1770--coincidently, indeed, with a 219. 14. One of the most remarkable of the company in some respects is 220. 15. Though the bibliographers claim to have traced the authorship in 221. 16. Above the scattered band of minor combatants rises a group of 222. 17. An interlude in the critical campaign, little noticed at the time, 223. 18. In the select Parisian arena of the Académie, the intellectual 224. 19. In 1759 there came a check. The Encyclopédie, which had been 225. 20. Voltaire could not compass, as he for a time schemed, the election 226. 21. Alongside of the more strictly literary or humanist movement, 227. 22. A more general influence, naturally, attached to the 228. 23. But science, like theology, had its schisms, and the rationalizing 229. 24. Over all of these men, and even in some measure over Voltaire, 230. 25. With Diderot were specially associated, in different ways, 231. 26. The death of d'Holbach (1789) brings us to the French 232. 27. No part of the history of freethought has been more distorted 233. 28. The anti-atheistic and anti-philosophic legend was born of the 234. 29. If any careful attempt be made to analyse the situation, the 235. 30. A survey of the work and attitude of the leading French 236. 31. While the true causation of the Revolution is thus kept clear, 237. 32. Among many other illustrations of the passion for persecution in 238. 33. This section would not be complete even in outline without some 239. CHAPTER XVIII 240. 1. When two generations of Protestant strife had turned to naught the 241. 2. While, however, clerical action could drive such a movement under 242. 1662. Th. Gegenbauer. Preservatio wider die Pest der heutigen 243. 1668. J. Musæus. Examen Cherburianismi. Contra E. Herbertum de 244. 1668. Anton Reiser. De origine, progressu, et incremento Antitheismi 245. 1677. Val. Greissing. Corona Transylvani; Exerc. 2, de Atheismo, 246. 1689. Th. Undereyck. Der Närrische Atheist in seiner Thorheit 247. 1697. A. H. Grosse. An Atheismus necessario ducat ad corruptionem 248. 1708. Loescher. Prænotiones Theologicæ contra Naturalistarum et 249. 1708. Rechenberg. Fundamenta veræ religionis Prudentum, adversus 250. 1710. J. C. Wolfius. Dissertatio de Atheismi falso suspectis. 251. 1713. Anon. Widerlegung der Atheisten, Deisten, und neuen Zweifeler. 252. 3. For a community in which the reading class was mainly clerical and 253. 4. Other culture-conditions concurred to set up a spirit of rationalism 254. 5. After the collapse of the popular movement of Matthias Knutzen, 255. 6. A personality of a very different kind emerges in the same period 256. 7. Among the pupils of Thomasius at Halle was Theodore Louis Lau, 257. 8. While Thomasius was still at work, a new force arose of a more 258. 9. Even before the generation of active pressure from English and 259. 10. To the same period belong the first activities of Johann Christian 260. 11. Even from decorous and official exponents of religion, however, 261. 12. Alongside of home-made heresy there had come into play a new 262. 13. Frederick, though reputed a Voltairean freethinker par excellence, 263. 14. The social vogue of deistic thought could now be traced in much of 264. 15. If it be true that even the rationalizing defenders of Christianity 265. 16. Much more notorious than any other German deist of his time was 266. 17. Alongside of these propagators of popular rationalism stood 267. 18. Deism was now as prevalent in educated Germany as in France or 268. 19. Meanwhile, the drift of the age of Aufklärung was apparent in 269. 20. No less certain is the unbelief of Schiller (1759-1805), whom 270. 21. The critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) may be said 271. 22. The total performance of Kant thus left Germany with a powerful 272. 23. Some philosophic opposition there was to Kant, alike on 273. 24. It is true that the progressive work was not all done by the 274. 25. The emancipation, too, was limited in area in the German-speaking 275. CHAPTER XIX 276. 1. Traces of new rationalistic life are to be seen in the Scandinavian 277. 2. For long, the only personality making powerfully for culture was 278. 3. In Sweden, meantime, there had occurred some reflex of the 279. 4. That there was, however, in eighteenth-century Sweden a considerable 280. 5. According to one of Swedenborg's biographers, the worldliness of 281. 6. In Denmark, on the other hand, the stagnation of nearly a hundred 282. 1. In Poland, where, as we saw, Unitarian heresy had spread 283. 2. In Russia the possibilities of modern freethought emerge only in 284. 1. Returning to Italy, no longer the leader of European thought, but 285. 2. First came the great work of Vico, the Principles of a New Science 286. 3. It is noteworthy, indeed, that the "New Science," as Vico boasted, 287. 1763. Thenceforth for many years there raged, "under the eyes of Pope 288. 4. Between 1737 and 1798 may be counted twenty-eight Italian writers 289. 1. For the rest of Europe during the eighteenth century, we have 290. 2. Still all freethinking in Spain ran immense risks, even under 291. 3. Another grandee, Don Christophe Ximenez de Gongora, Duke of 292. 4. In another case, a freethinking priest skilfully anticipated 293. 5. Out of a long series of other men of letters persecuted by the 294. 6. Another savant of the same period, Don Joseph de Clavijo y Faxardo, 295. 7. Still in the same reign, the Jesuit Francisco de Ista, author of an 296. 8. It is plain that the combined power of the Church, the orders, 297. 9. Portugal in the same period, despite the anti-clerical policy 298. CHAPTER XX 299. 1. Perhaps the most signal of all the proofs of the change wrought 300. 2. The rise of rationalism in the colonies must be traced in the main 301. 3. Similarly prudent was Jefferson, who, like Franklin and Paine, 302. 4. Nothing in American culture-history more clearly proves the last 303. 5. Its immediate effect was much greater in Britain, where his Rights 304. 6. The habit of reticence or dissimulation among American public men 305. CHAPTER XXI 306. 1. In Great Britain and America, the new movements of popular 307. 2. In France and elsewhere, the reverberation of the attack 308. 3. German "rationalism," proceeding from English deism, moving 309. 4. The literary compromise of Lessing, claiming for all religions 310. 5. In England, the neo-Christianity of the school of Coleridge, 311. 6. The utilitarianism of the school of Bentham, carried into 312. 7. Comtism, making little direct impression on the "constructive" 313. 8. German philosophy, Kantian and post-Kantian, in particular 314. 9. German atheism and scientific "materialism"--represented 315. 10. Revived English deism, involving destructive criticism 316. 12. Colenso's preliminary attack on the narrative of the 317. 13. The later or scientific "higher criticism" of the Old 318. 14. New historical criticism of Christian origins, in particular 319. 15. Exhibition of rationalism within the churches, as in Germany, 320. 16. Association of rationalistic doctrine with the Socialist 321. 17. Communication of doubt and moral questioning through poetry and 322. 4. The comprehension of all science in the Evolution Theory, 323. 7. Sociology, as outlined by Comte, Buckle, Spencer, Winwood Reade, 324. 8. Comparative Hierology; the methodical application of principles 325. 9. Above all, the later development of Anthropology (in the wide 326. 1. Penal laws, still operative in Britain and Germany against 327. 2. Class interests, involving in the first half of the century 328. 3. Commercial pressure thus set up, and always involved in the 329. 4. In England, identification of orthodox Dissent with political 330. 5. Concessions by the clergy, especially in England and the United 331. 6. Above all, the production of new masses of popular ignorance 332. 7. On this basis, business-like and in large part secular-minded 333. 1. If any one circumstance more than another differentiates the life 334. 2. Meantime, new writers arose to carry into fuller detail the attacks 335. 3. As the years went on, the persecution in England grew still fiercer; 336. 4. In this evolution political activities played an important 337. 5. Holyoake had been a missionary and martyr in the movement 338. 6. This date broadly coincides with the maximum domination of 339. 7. In 1858 there was elected to the presidency of the London Secular 340. 8. The special energy of the English secularist movement in the ninth 341. 9. In the first half of the century popular forms of freethought 342. 10. In other Catholic countries the course of popular culture in 343. 11. In Germany, as we have seen, the relative selectness of culture, 344. 12. Under the widely-different political conditions in Russia and 345. 13. "Free-religious" societies, such as have been noted in Germany, 346. 14. Alongside of the lines of movement before sketched, there has 347. 15. A partly similar evolution has taken place among the Protestant 348. 16. The history of popular freethought in Sweden yields a good 349. 17. Only in the United States has the public lecture platform been 350. 1. At the beginning of the century, educated men in general 351. 2. Gradually that had developed a greater precision of method, 352. 3. No less remarkable was the check to the few attempts which had 353. 4. But as regards the gospel history in general, the first Leben 354. 5. For a time there was undoubtedly "reaction," engineered with the 355. 6. Another expert of Baur's school, Albrecht Schwegler, author of 356. 7. In 1864, after an abstention of twenty years from discussion of 357. 1870. In what is now recognized as the national manner, he wrote two 358. 8. And it was long before even Strauss's early method of scientific 359. 9. In New Testament criticism, though the strict critical method of 360. 10. The movement of Biblical and other criticism in Germany has had 361. 11. On a less extensive scale than in Germany, critical study of the 362. 12. In France systematic criticism of the sacred books recommenced 363. 1. The whole imaginative literature of Europe, in the generation 364. 2. The literary history of France since his death decides the question, 365. 3. In French poetry the case is hardly otherwise. Béranger, who 366. 4. In England it was due above all to Shelley that the very age of 367. 5. One of the best-beloved names in English literature, Charles Lamb, 368. 6. While a semi-Bohemian like Lamb could thus dare to challenge the 369. 7. This attitude of orthodoxy, threatening ostracism to any avowed 370. 8. Thus for a whole generation honest and narrow-minded believers were 371. 9. In English fiction, the beginning of the end of genuine faith 372. 10. Among the most artistically gifted of the English story-writers and 373. 11. Though Shelley was anathema to English Christians in his own 374. 12. Of the imaginative literature of the United States, as of that of 375. 13. Of the vast modern output of belles lettres in continental Europe, 376. 1850. "If I could only go out on crutches!" he exclaimed; adding: 377. 14. But perhaps the most considerable evidence, in belles lettres, 378. 15. In the Scandinavian States, again, there are hardly any 379. 1. The power of intellectual habit and tradition had preserved 380. 2. From France came likewise the impulse to a naturalistic handling 381. 3. In England the influence of the French stimulus in physiology 382. 4. A more general effect, however, was probably wrought by the science 383. 5. Still more rousing, finally, was the effect of the science of 384. 6. Other anticipations of Darwin's doctrine in England and elsewhere 385. 7. "Contempt and abhorrence" had in fact at all times constituted 386. 8. Thus the idea of a specific creation of all forms of life by an 387. 1. A rationalistic treatment of human history had been explicit or 388. 2. In England the anti-revolution reaction was visible in this as 389. 3. All study of economics and of political history fostered such 390. 4. Two lines of scientific study, it would appear, must be thoroughly 391. 1. The philosophy of Kant, while giving the theological class a new 392. 2. In respect of his formal championship of Christianity Hegel's 393. 3. From the collisions of philosophic systems in Germany there 394. 4. Arnold Ruge (1802-1880), who was of the same philosophical school, 395. 5. On Feuerbach's Essence of Religion followed the resounding explosion 396. 6. In France the course of thought had been hardly less 397. 7. On retrospect, the whole official French philosophy of the period, 398. 8. The most energetic and characteristic philosophy produced in the new 399. 9. In Britain, where abstract philosophy after Berkeley had been mainly 400. 10. When English metaphysical philosophy revived with Sir William 401. 11. The effect of the ethical pressure of the deistic attack on 402. 12. A powerful and wholesome stimulus was given to English thought 403. 1598. Chapman spells the name Harriots. 404. 1587. Reprinted in 1592, 1604, and 1617. 405. 128. Cp. Bayle, art. Vorstius, Note N. By his theological opponents and 406. 1573. Ritter, Geschichte der deutschen Union, i, 19. Cp. Menzel, 407. 1646. (Gangræna, p. 151.) The Hanserd Knollys collection, above 408. 1614. Epist. Ded. 409. 1705. (Pref. to pt. i, ed. 1725.) 410. 1876. See citations in Land's note to his lecture in Spinoza: Four 411. 1663. From the withholding of court favour it proceeded to subsidies 412. 169. Most of the Guardian papers cited are by Berkeley. They are 413. 1903. pp. 36-37. 414. 1750. Forbes in his youth had been famed as one of the hardest drinkers 415. Introduction to the History of the Jews; a Vindication of Biblical 416. 1764. It was no fewer than four times ordered to be destroyed in the 417. 19. Jahrhunderts, 2te Aufl. 1848, i, 218-20. 418. 1768. Tn the latter entry, Yvon is described as "poursuivi comme 419. 193. Mrs. Dunlop, the friend of Burns, recommending its perusal to 420. 1841. Many of the utterances here set forth are irreconcilable with 421. 282. The Concordat was bitterly resented by the freethinkers in the 422. 1686. Other German and French periodicals soon followed that of 423. 24. "Before Thomasius," writes Bielfeld, "an old woman could not have 424. 1785. The Letters purport to be written by one of the Moroccan embassy 425. 1684. After a youth of poverty and struggle he settled at Copenhagen in 426. 139. Cp. Rambaud, Hist. de Russie, 2e édit. pp. 249, 259, 427. 32. Ripley, who was one of the American transcendentalist group and

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