[475] Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 1-87.
[476] Tanon, p. 479.
[477] Taylor, op. cit., pp. 283-4 n. ‘The philosophic ideas of such seem gathered from the flotsam and jetsam of the later antique world; their stock was not of the best, and bore little interesting fruit for later times.’
[478] Mandell Creighton, Persecution and Tolerance (1895), p. 55. ‘Leo X was tolerant of the philosophic doubts of Pomponazzo concerning the immortality of the soul, because such speculations were not likely to affect the position of the Papacy; but could not allow Luther to discuss the dubious and complicated question of indulgences because it might have disastrous effects upon the system of papal finance.’
[479] See Acton, History of Freedom of Thought, pp. 569-71.
[480] E. S. P. Haynes, Religious Persecution (1904), p. 40. ‘A Liberal has recently been defined as one who would never have taken the chance of imposing silence on the deceivers of mankind. If we hold by this definition, very few Liberals have ever existed, or do exist now.’
[481] D. G. Ritchie, Natural Rights (1903), p. 160.
[482] The Catholic Encyclopædia (1907-14), on Heresy, vol. vii, p. 261.
[483] Creighton, Persecution and Tolerance, pp. 9-10.
[484] Ludovico à Paramo, op. cit., pp. 281-2.