[101] The matter was dealt with at some length in the National Reformer of January 15, 1893.
[102] In October (?) 1882, the Quaker Friend testified to the "melancholy" fact that "with, of course, honourable exceptions, the most inveterate opponents of militarism are to be found among secularists and socialists." Soon afterwards Bishop Ellicott regretfully avowed that unbelief had acquired new and dangerous characteristics, in that it "now was very often found co-existent with what they were bound to speak of as a moral and in many cases a philanthropic life."
[103] Address at the National Secular Society's Conference.
[104] Published in 1861. Reprinted 1883.
[105] J. S. Mill's Autobiography, pp. 107, 167. A still more striking illustration of the way in which one rationalist may "steal the horse" while another may not "look over the hedge," is the following passage in Mill's book:—"On these grounds I was not only as ardent as ever for democratic institutions, but earnestly hoped that Owenite, St. Simonian, and all other anti-property doctrines might spread widely among the poorer classes; not that I thought these doctrines true, or desired that they should be acted on, but in order that the higher classes might be made to see that they had far more to fear from the poor when uneducated than when educated."
[106] His comment on Mr Gladstone's reply to Colonel Ingersoll is, however, a model of respectful exposure of a very bad case.
[107] "Five Dead Men whom I knew," p. 6.
[108] Of Henry Loader, a professed Christian.
[109] He was fined £40, while two brothel-keepers were fined only £5 each in the same week.
[110] Pamphlet on "The Land, the People, and the Coming Struggle," fourth ed., p. 8.