[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]