[6] Cp. Buckle, 1-vol. ed. pp. 303–309. “The result of the Thirty Years’ War was indifference, not only to the Confession, but to religion in general. Ever since that period, secular interests decidedly occupy the foreground” (Kahnis, Internal History of German Protestantism, Eng. tr. 1856, p. 21). [↑]
[7] Quoted by Bishop Hurst, ed. cited, p. 60 (78). [↑]
[8] Preservatio wider die Pest der heutigen Atheisten. [↑]
[9] Dated from Rome; but this was a mystification. [↑]
[10] Kahnis, p. 125; La Croze, Entretiens, 1711, p. 401. [↑]
[11] Even Knutzen seems to have been influenced by Spinoza. Pünjer, Hist. of the Christ. Philos. of Religion, Eng. tr. i, 437. Pünjer, however, seems to have exaggerated the connection. [↑]
[12] Cp. Lange, Gesch. des Materialismus, 3te Aufl. i, 318 (Eng. tr. ii, 35). [↑]
[13] Epistolæ ad Spinozam et Responsiones, in Gfrörer, liii. [↑]
[14] Colerus, Vie de Spinoza, in Gfrörer’s ed. of the Opera, 1830, pp. lv, lvi. [↑]
[15] Pünjer, as cited, i, 434–30: Lange, last cit. Lange notes that Genthe’s Compendium de impostura religionum, which has been erroneously assigned to the sixteenth century, must belong to the period of Kortholt’s work. [↑]