[485] Ibid., pp. 288-9.

[486] Ibid., pp. 333-4.

[487] Joseph de Maistre, Considérations sur la France suivies ... des lettres à un gentilhomme russe sur l’inquisition espagnole (Brussels, 1844), pp. 281 et seq. Cf. Catholic Encyclopædia, vol. vii, p. 261. ‘Toleration came in when faith went out.’

[488] De Cauzons, op. cit., vol. i, p. 9.

[489] Pollock, Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics (1882), on The Theory of Persecution, pp. 144-5. ‘However eager the clergy might be to stimulate and direct the anger of the faithful against heretics, their efforts would have been in vain if the bulk of the laity had not been predisposed to persecute heretics when duly pointed out. So far from persecution being merely the creature of priestcraft, it would be as near the truth to say that priestcraft was invented in order to organize persecution.’

[490] Haynes, op. cit., pp. 52-9.

[491] Ibid., p. 3. ‘And the heretic—often lacking in tact and a sense of proportion—is as offensive to the believer as one who should rudely tell him that his doctor was a quack and his solicitor a swindler.’ Cf. p. 55.

[492] Mill, On Liberty; Lecky’s Rationalism, esp., chs. iv and v.

[493] Op. cit., pp. 5, 113-15.

[494] Pollock, op. cit., p. 175.