[CHAPTER V.]

The Savoyard Vicar.

Shallow hopes entertained by the dogmatic atheists [256]

The good side of the religious reaction [258]

Its preservation of some parts of Christian influence [259]

Earlier forms of deism [260]

The deism of the Savoyard Vicar [264]

The elevation of man, as well as the restoration of a divinity [265]

A divinity for fair weather [268]

Religious self-denial [269]