It is
not true that these and similar publications have created a
Rationalistic taste in Great Britain. The taste was already in
existence, and has been struggling for satisfaction ever since the
closing decades of the eighteenth century.
FOOTNOTES:
[129] For an excellent view of the relation of France and England in the
eighteenth century, vid. _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 1 Dec., 1861.
[130] Schlosser, _History of the Eighteenth Century_, vol. i., p. 98.
[131] _Works_, vol. iii., p. 328. London Edition of 1754. 5 vols.,
quarto.
[132] Ibid. p. 304.
[133] Ibid. vol. v., p. 356.
[134] Ibid. p. 258.
[135] Leland, _View of Deistical Writers of England_, pp. 307-308.
London Edition of 1837, with Appendix and Introduction, by Brown and
Edmonds.
[136] _Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding_, p. 49.
London Edition, 1750.
[137] _Philosophical Essays, &c._, p. 224.
[138] Leland, _View of Deistical Writers_, pp. 230-250.
[139] Schlosser, _History of the Eighteenth Century_, vol. ii., p.
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