[190] The point is further discussed in Dynamics of Religion, pp. 175–76. [↑]
[191] Cp. G. B. Hertz, The Old Colonial System, 1905, pp. 4, 22, 93, 157. [↑]
[192] Letter xxxi, in Mason’s Memoir. [↑]
[193] Hill Burton’s Life of Hume, ii, 433, 434, 484–85, 487. [↑]
[194] Compare the verdicts of Gibbon in his Autobiography, and of Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, bk. v, ch. i, art. 2; and see the memoir of Smith in 1831 ed. and McCulloch’s ed., and Rae’s Life of Adam Smith, p. 24. It appears that about 1764 many English people sent their sons to Edinburgh University on account of the better education there. Letter of Blair, in Burton’s Life of Hume, ii, 229. [↑]
[196] Present State of Polite Learning, 1765, ch. vi. His story of how the father of St. Foix cured the youth of the desire to rationalize his creed is not suggestive of conviction. The father pointed to a crucifix, saying, “Behold the fate of a reformer.” The story has been often plagiarized since—e.g., in Galt’s Annals of the Parish. [↑]
[197] Abbey and Overton, The English Church in the Eighteenth Century, 1878, ii, 37. [↑]
[198] Dieu et les Hommes, ch. xxxix. [↑]
[199] Cp. Bishop Law, Considerations on the Theory of Religion, 6th ed. 1774, p. 65, note, and the Analysis of Bolingbroke’s writings (1755) there cited. Mr. Sichel’s reply to Sir L. Stephen’s criticism may or may not be successful; but he does not deal with Bishop Law’s. [↑]