CHAPTER VIII Notes

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.