[20] Warburton, Divine Legation, vol. ii, preface. [↑]
[21] Stephen, English Thought, i, 114–18. [↑]
[22] This, according to John Craig, was Newton’s opinion. “The reason of his [Newton’s] showing the errors of Cartes’s philosophy was because he thought it made on purpose to be the foundation of infidelity.” Letter to Conduitt, April 7, 1727, in Brewster’s Memoirs of Newton, ii, 315. Clarke, in his Answer to Butler’s Fifth Letter, expresses a similar view. [↑]
[23] “Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty, Collected from the Works of the Learn’d Gassendi by Monsieur Bernier. Translated out of the French, 1699.” [↑]
[24] Cp. W. Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times, 1901, i, 175. [↑]
[25] Sir Leslie Stephen (i, 33) makes the surprising statement that a “dogmatic assertion of free-will became a mark of the whole deist and semi-deist school.” On the contrary, Hobbes and Anthony Collins, not to speak of Locke, wrote with uncommon power against the conception of free-will, and had many disciples on that head. [↑]
[26] Letter to the Princess of Wales, November, 1715, in Brewster, ii, 284–85. [↑]
[27] Second Letter to Clarke, par. 1. [↑]
[28] Abstract from the Works of John Hutchinson, 1755, pp. 149–63. [↑]