Note 5 — Chapter II · Witchcraft and Sorcery.
Reading edition
II. Mackay’s “Memoirs of Delusions,” p. 169; Exod. XXII. 18. As Mackay shows, the sublime hope of immortality, in the early days of “little knowledge” became the source of a whole train of superstitions, from which fount a deluge of blood and horror poured over Europe, for two and a half centuries. “Memoirs of Delusions,” vol. II., p. 168.