[263] See the author’s Buckle and his Critics, 1895. [↑]
[264] Europe during the Middle Ages, 11th ed. i, 377. [↑]
[265] Cp. his Decline of the Roman Republic, 1864, i, 345–47; and note on p. 447 of his translation of Plutarch’s Brutus, Bohn ed. of Lives, vol. iv. [↑]
[266] See The Dynamics of Religion, pp. 227–33. [↑]
[267] It is difficult to understand the claim made for Hegel by his translator, the Rev. E. B. Speirs, that any student of his lectures on the Philosophy of Religion “will be constrained to admit that in them we have the true ‘sources’ of the evolution principle as applied to the study of religion” (edit. pref. to trans. of work cited, i, p. viii). To say nothing of Fontenelle and De Brosses, Constant had laid out the whole subject before Hegel. [↑]
[268] Primitive Culture, i. 2. [↑]
[269] Life and Letters, i, 151. [↑]
[270] Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. 1876–96. [↑]
[271] Cp. Saintes, Hist. crit. du rationalisme en Allemagne, p. 323. [↑]