[150] Rae, Life of Adam Smith, 1895, p. 13. Prof. Fowler shows no knowledge of this prosecution in his monograph on Hutcheson (Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, 1882); and Mr. W. R. Scott, in his, seems to rely for the wording of the indictment solely on Mr. Rae, who gives no references, drawing apparently on unpublished MSS. [↑]
[151] Rae, as cited, pp. 11–15. [↑]
[152] Scott, as cited, p. 87. [↑]
[153] Dr. James Orr, David Hume and his Influence, etc., 1903. pp. 36–37. [↑]
[154] Also for a time a theological professor in Edinburgh University. [↑]
[155] The Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed, appeared in 1735; the Letter to a Bishop in 1732; and the Reflections on the Sources of Incredulity (left unfinished) posthumously about 1750. Forbes in his youth had been famed as one of the hardest drinkers of his day. [↑]
[156] Reflections on Incredulity, in Works, undated, ii, 141–42. Yet the works of Forbes were translated for orthodox purposes into German, and later into French by Père Houbigant (1769), who preserves the passage on freethinkers’ morals, though curtailing the Reflections as a whole. [↑]
[157] As to which see A Sober Enquiry into the Grounds of the Present Differences in the Church of Scotland, 1723. [↑]
[158] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, ed. 1872, p. 10. [↑]
[159] See the Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. A. Carlyle, 1860, pp. 492–93. Millar’s Historical View of the English Government (censured by Hallam) was once much esteemed; and his Origin of Ranks is still worth the attention of sociologists. [↑]