[2114] It is an exaggeration to say (as has been said) that the sentiment of the sacred obligation of opinion was first formulated or created in the world by the early Christian martyrs—before their time Socrates, Jews in the Antiochian persecution, and probably others, had embodied this sentiment—but the Christian devotion helped to make it a generally recognized ethical principle.
[2115] Hopkins, Religions of India, Index, s.v. Yoga; Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, Index, s.v. Baksheesh; article "Saint and Saintliness" in Jewish Encyclopedia; Christian hagiologies; Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien; C. Trumelet, Les saints de l'Islam.
[2116] See above, § 1163.
[2117] Ezek. xiv, 9.
[2118] It is this sort of insensate optimism that Voltaire ridicules in Candide—a just and useful protest against a superficial view of life.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS OF REFERENCE
Encyclopædias and Dictionaries
Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., Edinburgh; 11th ed., Cambridge, England, and New York).