Note 2 — Chapter XX · EARLY FREETHOUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES

Such is the wording of the passage in the Autobiography in the Edinburgh edition of 1803, p. 25, which follows the French translation of the original MS. In the edition of the Autobiography and Letters in the Minerva Library, edited by Mr. Bettany (1891, p. 11), which follows Mr. Bigelow’s edition of 1879, it runs: “Being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious doctrine....” ↑