[1] As Voltaire noted, Toland was persecuted in Ireland for his circumspect and cautious first book, and left unmolested in England when he grew much more aggressive. [↑]
[2] First ed. anonymous. Second ed., of same year, gives author’s name. Another ed. in 1702. [↑]
[3] See Dynamics of Religion, p. 129. [↑]
[4] Pref. to 2nd ed. pp. vi, viii, xxiv, xxvi. [↑]
[5] As late as 1701 a vote for its prosecution was passed in the Lower House of Convocation. Farrar, Crit. Hist. of Freethought, p. 180. [↑]
[6] Molyneux, in Familiar Letters of Locke, etc. p. 228. [↑]
[7] No credit for this is given in Sir Leslie Stephen’s notice of Toland in English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, i, 101–12. Compare the estimate of Lange, Gesch. des Materialismus, i, 272–76 (Eng. tr. i, 324–30). Lange perhaps idealizes his subject somewhat. [↑]
[8] In two letters published along with the Letters to Serena, 1704. [↑]