[53] Canon Scott Holland, in a sermon preached in St. Paul’s Cathedral, May, 1906.
[54] These are the concluding words of a lecture delivered in the Central Hall, Manchester. The lecture is incorporated with others in a book entitled Is Christianity True? (Charles H. Kelly, 26, Paternoster Row, E.C.; 6d.).
[55] See Appendix.
[56] This view is confirmed by such standard works as Lecky’s Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe, Buckle’s History of Civilisation in England, Robertson’s Short History of Freethought, and Benn’s History of Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century.
[57] Quoted from a sermon preached by the Rev. Charles Voysey at the Theistic Church, October 22nd, 1905. See also Appendix.
[58] See Gibbon’s Rome, p. 257, vol. ii. (ed. 1809).
[59] This warning was pronounced by Canon Henson on November 16th, 1905, when commenting, in St. Paul’s Cathedral, upon the Russian atrocities.
[60] P. 352, Vol. I., of his History of Civilisation in England (Longmans, Green, & Co.; 1891).
[61] See also Chap. VII., p. 281, note.
[62] On Sunday, April 13th, 1890.