[10] De Principiis atque Originibus (Routledge’s 1-vol. ed. pp. 651, 667). [↑]
[11] Letters to Serena, pp. 19, 67. [↑]
[12] Sir Henry Craik (cited by Temple Scott, Bohn ed. of Swift’s Works, iii, 9) speaks of Toland as “a man of utterly worthless character.” This is mere malignant abuse. Toland is described by Pope in a note to the Dunciad (ii, 399) as a spy to Lord Oxford. There could hardly be a worse authority for such a charge. [↑]
[13] Gostwick, German Culture and Christianity, 1882, p. 26. [↑]
[14] Cp. Stephen, as cited, p. 115. [↑]
[15] “The Christianity of many writers consisted simply in expressing deist opinions in the old-fashioned phraseology” (Stephen, i, 91). [↑]
[16] Cp. Pünjer, Christ. Philos. of Religion, i, 289–90; and Dynamics of Religion, pp. 94–98. Lord Morley’s reference to “the godless deism of the English school” (Voltaire, 4th ed. p. 69) is puzzling. Cp. Rosenkranz (Diderot’s Leben und Werke, 1866, ii, 421) on “den ungöttlichen Gott der Jesuiten and Jansenisten, dies monströse Zerrbild des alten Jehovah, diesen apotheosirten Tyrannen, diesen Moloch.” The latter application of the term seems the more plausible. [↑]
[17] Macaulay’s description of Blount as an atheist is therefore doubly unwarranted. [↑]
[18] Cp. Dynamics of Religion, pp. 94–98. [↑]
[19] Continuation des Pensées Diverses ... à l’occasion de la Comète ... de 1680, Amsterdam, 1705, i, 91. [↑]