[22] Religio Medici, 1642, pt. i. §§ 19, 20. [↑]
[23] Essay II, Of Scepticism and Certainty (rep. of reply to Thomas White, app. to Scepsis Scientifica in 1665) in Glanvill’s collected Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, 1676, pp. 38, 44. [↑]
[24] Plus Ultra: or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, 1668, p. 146. [↑]
[25] History of the Royal Society, 1667, p. 73. Describing the beginnings of the Society, Sprat remarks that Oxford had at that time many members “who had begun a free way of reasoning” (p. 53). [↑]
[26] Buckle, Introd. to Hist. of Civ. in Eng., 1-vol. ed. p. 211. [↑]
[27] Sprat, p. 375 (printed as 367). [↑]
[28] Id., p. 83. The French Academy had the same rule. [↑]
[29] Some of Sprat’s uses of the term have a very general sense, as when he writes (p. 87) that “Amsterdam is a place of Trade without the mixture of men of freer thoughts.” The latter is an old application, as in “the free sciences” or “the liberal arts.” [↑]
[30] Cited by Archbishop Trench, The Study of Words, 19th ed., p. 230, from the Clarendon State Papers, App. Vol. III, p. 40. [↑]
[31] Art. Rationalismus and Supernaturalismus in Herzog and Plitt’s Real-Encyk. für prot. Theol. und Kirche, 1883. xii, 509. [↑]