Note 129 — THE HISTORY OF HAVEREL WIVES.
Reading edition
Any one who wishes to see compressed within one volume an account of the opinions of the human race all through time regarding Satan, will find it in The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern, already mentioned. The second part of the work deals more particularly to the line of thought suggested by Janet. An edition of the work, published in London in 1793, lies before us; and the following verse on the title-page, referring in a slight degree to the remark in the text, may be quoted:—
‘Bad as he is, the Devil may be abus’d, Be falsely charged, and causelessly accused: When Men, unwilling to be blamed alone, Shift off those crimes on him which are their own.’