[210] A reply, The World proved to be not eternal nor mechanical, appeared in 1790. [↑]
[211] The Doctrines of a Trinity and the Incarnation of God was published anonymously. [↑]
[212] See the Biographical Introduction to the Unitarian reprint of Watts’s Solemn Address, 1840, which gives the letters of Lardner. And cp. Skeats, Hist. of the English Free Churches, ed. Miall, p. 240. [↑]
[213] Life of Lardner, by Dr. Kippis, prefixed to Works, ed. 1835, i, p. xxxii. [↑]
[214] Memoirs of Priestley, 1806, pp. 30–32, 35, 37. The Letter on the Logos was addressed by Lardner to the first Lord Barrington, and was first published anonymously, in 1759. [↑]
[215] Memoirs of Priestley, p. 19. [↑]
[216] Pamphlet of 1778, printing the sermon, with reply to a local attack. [↑]
[217] MS. alteration in print. See also p. 1 of Epistle Dedicatory. [↑]
[218] In criticizing whom Sir Leslie Stephen barely notices his scientific work, but dwells much on his religious fallacies—a course which would make short work of the fame of Newton. [↑]
[219] A Church dignitary has described Evanson’s Dissonance as “the commencement of the destructive criticism of the Fourth Gospel” (Archdeacon Watkins’s Bampton Lectures, 1890, p. 174). [↑]