[96]. We should prefer to say contrived by the human intelligence, constructed and directed by the human will.
[97]. P. 465.
[98]. P. 66.
[99]. Pp. 137–139.
[100]. P. 140.
[101]. P. 42.
[102]. Short Studies on Great Subjects. By James Anthony Froude, M.A. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 1877.
[103]. We cannot, in the space of an article of this kind, give chapter and verse for every statement we may make. Limits forbid this. In saying that incoherency and inconsistency mark the Protestant tradition throughout, we are aware that we make a very large and very grave assertion. To those who feel inclined to doubt its truth we would recommend as the readiest and fullest confirmation of it the very able series of articles on the Protestant tradition which appeared last year in the London Tablet—a series that, enlarged and carried further, we should like to see published in book-form.
[104]. Mr. Froude probably means the children of Catholic parents, who were encouraged by the state to apostatize, and thereby enter into the possession of their family estates; as otherwise there was no legal possibility of a Protestant being injured by a Catholic.
[105]. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. By James Anthony Froude, M.A. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1872.