[32] Gibbon’s Rome, vol. ii., p. 257 (ed. 1809). In 1638, forty thousand Japanese Christians were put to death in the great Castle of Hara, the Dutch traders at Nagasaki supplying cannon and gunpowder to be used against their fellow-Christians. (Mentioned in The Christian Faith in Japan, p. 19, a book published by the S.P.G.) This wholesale butchery, however, marked the destruction, not the introduction, of Christianity.
[33] Quoted from page 543 of The Martyrdom of Man, seventeenth edition (1903).
[34] Are we not liable to forget that the most brilliant geniuses may make mistakes sometimes, either from want of knowledge of facts, or from a psychological unwillingness to accept them? May not the very subtlety of their intellects aid the work of their own self-deception?
[35] Liddon’s Some Elements of Religion, p. 48.
[36] Flint’s Anti-Theistic Theories.
[37] See address to the Royal Naval Volunteers by their hon. chaplain, the Bishop of London, reported in the Church Times for June 23rd, 1905.
[38] Anti-Nunquam, p. 80.
[39] See his inaugural address at the Church Congress, October, 1906.
[40] See Anti-Theistic Theories, Lecture vii., “Are there Tribes of Atheists?”
[41] The Descent of Man, pp. 394–5.