Part 7 (1/2)
[66]
... Ces enfants de l'effroi, Ces beaux riens qu'on adore, et sans savoir pourquoi, Ces dieux que l'homme a faits et qui n'ont pas fait l'homme.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC.
[67] From outer to inner things, and from inner to higher.
[68] See the Report of Mr. H. Roberts, in the _Comptes rendus du Congres international de bienfaisance de Londres_, vol. ii. page 95, and the 23rd _Bulletin de la Societe genevoise d'utilite publique_, 1863.
[69] Par son respect pour le jour du Dimanche.
[70] revet.i.t.
[71] _La Paix meditations historiques et religieuses_, par A. Gratry, pretre de l'Oratoire.--Septieme meditation: l'Angleterre.
[72] _The Const.i.tution of Man_, by G. Combe. The popular edition was printed at the expense of Mr. Henderson.
[73] _Infidelity: its aspects, causes, and agencies_, by Thomas Pearson.
People's edition, 1854, page 263.
[74] _Auguste Comte et la Philosophie positive_, par E. Littre, page 276.
[75] ”Positivism, within the last quarter of a century, has become an active, and even fas.h.i.+onable mode of thought, and nowhere more so than amongst certain literary and intellectual circles in England.” _The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of modern Criticism, Lectures on M.
Renan's 'Vie de Jesus,'_--by John Tulloch, D.D., Princ.i.p.al of the College of St. Mary in the University of St. Andrew. Macmillan and Co., 1864.
[76] See Pearson: _Infidelity_, particularly page 316, and _Christianity and Secularism, the public discussion_--, particularly page 8.
[77]--_dans le siecle_.
[78] Vapereau's _Dictionnaire des contemporains_--Art. HOLYOAKE.
[79] I have had in view here the first numbers of _The Secular World_, and of _The National Reformer, Secular Advocate_, for 1864.
[80] _The National Reformer_ of 2nd Jan. 1864.
[81] MS. information.
[82] Readers unacquainted with the Italian language will find a compendious exposition of M. Conti's philosophy, in a small volume published, in 1863, under the t.i.tle of _Le Camposanto de Pise ou le Scepticisme_. (Paris, librairies Joel Cherbuliez et Auguste Durand; I vol. in-18.)
[83] Such is the testimony rendered to him by M. Aug. Conti in his work, _La Philosophie italienne_. (Paris, Joel Cherbuliez et Auguste Durand; one small vol. 18mo.)
[84] _Le Rationalisme_ (in French), published with an introduction, by M. D. Bancel, Brussels, 1858, page 27.
[85] The learned author appears to intimate that the distractions of the Papacy, consequent on its political struggles for temporal power, hinder the salutary influence which it might otherwise exercise in the suppression of evil doctrines. The Translator feels it due to himself to state here, once for all, that he has no sympathy whatever with such a view of the influence of the Papacy. On the contrary, he is disposed to attribute to the Church of Rome most of the evils which afflict, not Italy only, but all the countries over which she has any power. Perhaps, having ”felt the weight of too much liberty” in his own Church, the excellent author, fundamentally sound in his own views of Christian doctrine, as is proved abundantly by his writings, has been led by a natural reaction to give too much weight to the opposite principle of authority. The concluding pages of his former work, _La Vie Eternelle_, indicate a mind too painfully and sensitively averse to all controversy with a corrupt Church, in consideration of the acknowledged excellences of many of her individual members,--her Pascals, Fenelons, Martin Boos, Girards, Gratrys, and Lacordaires.--_Translator_.
[86] _De l'autre rive_ (in Russian).
[87] _De l'autre rive_. v. Consolatio.--This chapter is a dialogue between a lady and a doctor. I have considered the doctor as expressing the thoughts of the writer. The form of dialogue, however, always allows an author to express his thoughts, while declining, if need be, the responsibility of them.