[100] Work cited, p. 324. The book is now rare. [↑]
[101] Cp. Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism, 1893, p. 2. [↑]
[102] Dr. Cheyne expresses surprise that a “theological writer” who got no far should not have been “prompted by his good genius to follow up his advantage.” It is, however, rather remarkable that Parvish, who was a bookseller at Guildford (Alberti, Briefe, p. 426), should have achieved what he did. It was through not being a theological writer that he went so far, no theologian of his day following him. [↑]
[103] See the author’s introduction to ed. of the Characteristics, 1900, rep. in Pioneer Humanists. [↑]
[104] The question remains obscure. Cp. the Letter cited, reprinted at end of Carver’s 1830 ed. of Paine’s Works (New York); F. Thackeray’s Life of Chatham, ii, 405; and Chatham’s “scalping-knife” speech. [↑]
[105] A Vindication of the Moral Philosopher appeared in 1741. [↑]
[106] Cp. Lechler, pp. 371, 386. [↑]
[107] Cp. Cairns, Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century, 1881, p. 101. [↑]
[109] View of the Deistical Writers, Letter XI (X in 1st ed.). [↑]