Chapter VIII · Notes
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
30 The freely thinking, anti-dogmatic religiousness of Socinianism had maintained itself chiefly in Poland, Holland, Hungary, England, and North America. Its closer adherents called themselves also Latitudinarians, the more distant ones Unitarians. The fact that religious rationalism had already existed in a literary form made its appearance in the eighteenth century easier.
31 Tindal’s work bears the title Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). Pierre Bayle’s famous Dictionnaire historique et critique appeared for the first time in two volumes in 1695.
32 The most impressive, and perhaps the most profound document of the religion of reason is the confession of faith which Rousseau in his novel Emile (1762) puts into the mouth of a country minister from Savoy.
33 F. V. Reinhard: Essay concerning the Plan which the Founder of the Christian Religion drew up for the Benefit of Mankind (1791; 4th ed., 1798). K. H. Venturini: Natural History of the Great Prophet of Nazareth (1800-1802). See for an account of them the writer’s work: The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906; 4th ed., 1922 (German); 1st English ed., 1910; 3rd, 1922).
34 Expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal, 1759; from France, 1764; from Spain and Naples, 1767; from Parma, 1768.
35 Short Theses upon the Sin of Witchcraft and the Practice of Trial Therefor.
36 See G. Lenôtre: “Les Agents Royalists sous la Revolution” (Revue des Deux Mondes, 1922).
37 Her dictum is given in the English periodical, The Atlas, in its issue of January 27th, 1828.
38 Esquissè d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. It was published in 1795, after the author’s death, at the expense of the National Convention.