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2. Davidson, John, introd. to Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, xxi.

3.Ibid.

4. Hervey, Memoirs of the Court of George II, in introd. to Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees, x.

5. Besant, London, 152.

6.Camb. Mod. History, VI, 79.

7. Stephen, L., History of English Thought in the 18th Century, I, 217.

8. Thackeray, Four Georges, 34.

9. Lecky, II, 468.

10. Hume, D., essay “Of National Character.”

11. Besant, 153.

12. Lecky, I, 275–76, 303–4.

13. Trevelyan, G. M., England under the Stuarts, 342.

14. Robertson, J. M., History of Free-thought, II, 161; Lecky, I, 313.

15. Voltaire, XIXb, 218.

16. Voltaire, VIa, 288.

17. Woolston, Discourses, I, 34, in Stephen, History of English Thought, I, 232.

18. Bury, J. B., History of Freedom of Thought, 141; Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, article “Miracles,” in Works, VIa, 288–93; Robertson, J. M., Freethought, II, 157–59; Stephen, History of English Thought, I, 228–38.

19. Benn, A. W., History of English Rationalism in the 19th Century, I, 145.

20. Tindal, M., Christianity as Old as the Creation, 14, in Stephen, History, I, 139.

21. Stephen, I, 262; Robertson, II, 158.

22. In Stephen, I, 266.

23. Collins, J. C., Bolingbroke, 183.

24. Stephen, I, 178.

25. Torrey, N. L., Voltaire and the English Deists, 149.

26. In Hearnshaw, English Thinkers of the Augustan Age, 240.

27. Stephen, History, I, 180.

28. Collins, J. C., 180.

29. Goldsmith, O., Life of Bolingbroke, in Clark, B. H., Great Short Biographies, 1057.

30. In Stephen, I, 246.

31. Ibid., 345.

32. 349–52.

33. 356.

34. Enc. Brit., IV, 463b.

35. Mossner, Bishop Butler and the Age of Reason, 8.

36. Toynbee, Arnold J., Study of History, abridgment of Vols. I-VI by D. C. Somervell, 486.

37. Gibbon, Edward, Memoirs, 21.

38. Turberville, Johnson’s England, I, 33.

39. Inge, Christian Mysticism, 283.

40.Camb. Mod. History, VI, 81.

41. Gibbon, Memoirs, 22.

42. Bearne, Court Painter, 198.

43. Voltaire, essay “Epic Poetry.”

44. Besant, 149.

45. McConnell, F. J., John Wesley, 13.

46. Wesley, John, Journal, 94.

47.Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, XII, 724d.

48. Ibid., 725a.

49. McConnell, 47.

50. Lecky, II, 554.

51. Wesley, Journal, 43; Hastings, XII, 725d.

52. Enc. Brit., XXIII, 576.

53. Lecky, II, 565.

54.Ibid.

55. 563.

56. 591–94; Lecky, History of European Rationalism, I, 45.

57. Turberville, Johnson’s England, I, 221.

58. Wesley, Journal for 1739, in Lecky, History of England, II, 584.

59. Ibid., 583.

60. 590.

61. 636; Toynbee, Study of History, IX, 459–60.

62. McConnell, 48.

63.Ibid., 66.

64. Wesley, Journal, entry for Mar. 30, 1736.

65.World Christian Handbook, 5.

66. Journal for Jan. 1, 1790.

67. Shaftesbury, 3d Earl of, Characteristics, I, 260.

68. Mandeville, Fable of the Bees, 83–85.

69. Hutcheson, F., Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, in Enc. Brit., XI, 945c.

70. Buckle, II, 334.

71. Ibid., 336.

72. Hume, D., Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, 4.

73. Huxley, T. H., Hume, 3.

74.Ibid., 6.

75. Mossner, Life of Hume, 51.

76. Huxley, 6.

77. “My Own Life,” in Hume, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, 233.

78. Mossner, 82.

79.Ibid., 94.

80. III.

81. Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part II, Sec. 5.

82. Ibid., I, II, I.

83. I, III, 10 and 7.

84. I, IV, 2 and 6.

85. I, IV, I.

86.Ibid.

87. Appendix.

88. I, IV, I.

89. I, IV, 7.

90. I, IV, 2.

91. I, IV, 1.

92. II, III, 3.

93.Ibid.

94. II, I, 10.

95. II, I, 7.

96. II, I, 8.

97. II, II, II.

98. “My Own Life,” in Hume, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, p. 234.

99. Mossner, p. 129.

100. Treatise, III, I, Sec. 1.

101. III, II, 2.

102. III, III, 6.

103. Mossner, p. 213.

104. Ibid., 215–18.

105. Hume, Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding, p. 2.

106. Ibid., Part X, Secs. 91–95 and 100–101.

107. XI, 102.