A Short History of Freethought Ancient And Modern volume 2
A Short History of Freethought Ancient And Modern volume 2
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon), 1856-1933
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It appears that about 1764 many Eng-lish people sent their sons to Edinburg;h University on accoimt of the better education there. Letter of Blair, in Hill Burton's Life of Hume, ii, 229. - Essays, iv, end. 3 Present State of Polite Learning, 1765, ch. Vi. His story of how the father of St. Foix cured the youth of the desire to rationalise his creed is not sug-g-estive of conviction. The father pointed to a crucifix, saying-, " Behold the fate of a reformer. " The story has been often plagiaris...ed since — e. G. , in Gait's Anna/s of the Parish. BRITISH FREETHOUGHT IN THE iSfh CENTURY 171 went deep. Voltaire tells' that he had known some young pupils of Bolingbroke who altogether denied the historic actuality of the Gospel Jesus — a stretch of criticism beyond the assimilative power of that age. In his lifetime, however, BoUngbroke had been extremely careful to avoid compromising himself. Mr. Arthur Hassall, in his generally excellent monograph on Bolingbroke (Statesmen Series: Allen & Co.
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