1 As remarked by the Bishop of London in a sermon at Westminster Abbey. See cover of Mr. Guy Thorne’s book, When it was Dark.
2 Quoted from an address delivered by the Bishop of London at St. Paul’s, as reported in the Church Times of October 7th, 1904.
3 See footnote p. 37 of The Religion of Woman, by Joseph McCabe.
4 Professor Jinzo Naruse. For the quotation see chap. xxi. on “The Position of Women” in Mr. Alfred Stead’s recent publication, Japan by the Japanese.
5 See p. 31 of the Rev. Herbert Moore’s The Christian Faith in Japan.
6 Ibid., p. 129.
7 We learn this from reliable sources—for example, from W. M. Flinders Petrie and Gaston Camille Charles Maspéro, the celebrated English and French Egyptologists.
8 The Religion of Woman.
9 These remarks are quoted on p. 15 of The Religion of Woman from vol. iii., p. 290, of Mrs. Cady Stanton’s History of Women’s Suffrage.
10 The Religion of Woman, pp. 105, 107, 111.
11 Pinchwife, it will be remembered, is the anxious husband (in Wycherley’s comedy, The Country Wife) who held that a woman is innocent in proportion to her lack of knowledge. There are, of course, other reasons why a wife’s ignorance is deemed desirable. Cf. “And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.”
12 In his sermon at St. Crantock’s on August 27th, 1905.
13 The Religion of Woman, p. 78. This work embodies a complete refutation of the assertion which we have cursorily examined. The truth-seeker desirous of studying other aspects of the Christian contention is strongly recommended to peruse also Mr. McCabe’s brilliant essay, The Bible in Europe (Watts, 1907).
14 See his Notes on Popular Rationalism.
15 Anti-Theistic Theories, Lecture 5, on Comte’s Positivist Philosophy.
16 Approximately 300,000 copies by the end of January, 1907.
17 In the Nineteenth Century and After, November, 1904.
18 See Gibbon’s Rome, vol. iii., p. 27 (ed. 1809).
19 Ibid., vol. iii., p. 27.
20 Ibid., vol. iv., p. 21.
21 Among his victims were: his father-in-law (A.D. 310); sister’s husband (314); nephew (319); wife (320); former friend (321); sister’s husband (325); own son (326).
22 Gibbon’s Rome, vol. ii., p. 337 (ed. 1809).
23 The death-bed baptism of Constantine is described by Eusebius, the Bishop of Cæsarea, in his Life of Constantine, bk. iv., chaps. 61, 62, 63, and 64. The Bishop assumes the salvation of Constantine with the utmost confidence, and says: “He was removed about mid-day to the presence of his God, leaving his mortal remains to his fellow-mortals, and carrying into fellowship with God that part of his being which was capable of understanding and loving Him.”
24 It has been urged upon me by my Christian friends that the enormous funds at the disposal of the various Christian propagandist societies testify to the growth, not the decay, of the Christian faith. If these funds were chiefly derived from the small donations of the many, there would be something in this argument. Such, however, is not the case.
25 Ammian. Marcell. 1. xxvii. c. 3.
26 Cod. Theodos., Lib. xvi. tit. ii. 1. 20.
27 Lib. xvi. tit. x. 1. 20, and tit. v. legg. 43, 52, 57, 65.
28 See pp. 58–9 of the Beneficial Influence of the Ancient Clergy (the title under which the Hulsean Prize Essay for 1850 was subsequently published in book form), by the late Henry Mackenzie, B.A., scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Other quotations are given in the Appendix.
29 The Gods of the Egyptians, Preface, p. xv.
30 Ibid.
31 Huxley’s Essays on Controverted Questions, p. 9, Prologue.
32 Gibbon’s Rome, vol. ii., p. 257 (ed. 1809). In 1638, forty thousand Japanese Christians were put to death in the great Castle of Hara, the Dutch traders at Nagasaki supplying cannon and gunpowder to be used against their fellow-Christians. (Mentioned in The Christian Faith in Japan, p. 19, a book published by the S.P.G.) This wholesale butchery, however, marked the destruction, not the introduction, of Christianity.
33 Quoted from page 543 of The Martyrdom of Man, seventeenth edition (1903).
34 Are we not liable to forget that the most brilliant geniuses may make mistakes sometimes, either from want of knowledge of facts, or from a psychological unwillingness to accept them? May not the very subtlety of their intellects aid the work of their own self-deception?
35 Liddon’s Some Elements of Religion, p. 48.
36 Flint’s Anti-Theistic Theories.
37 See address to the Royal Naval Volunteers by their hon. chaplain, the Bishop of London, reported in the Church Times for June 23rd, 1905.
38 Anti-Nunquam, p. 80.
39 See his inaugural address at the Church Congress, October, 1906.
40 See Anti-Theistic Theories, Lecture vii., “Are there Tribes of Atheists?”
41 The Descent of Man, pp. 394–5.
42 Quoted by Dr. Flint in the lecture above referred to.
43 See The Living Races of Mankind, pp. 721–3.
44 The Living Races of Mankind, pp. 721–3.
45 Ibid.
46 In a letter to Dr. Frazer. See the Fortnightly Review, July, 1905, p. 171.
47 The Golden Bough, p. 73, note 1. See also (as there noted) Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn, vii., “Anthropologie, Ethnographie,” par P. Hyades et J. Deniker (Paris, 1891), pp. 253–257.
48 The Golden Bough, p. 61.
49 Ibid.
50 In the Preface to the second edition of The Golden Bough.
51 The Golden Bough, p. 61.
52 Ibid.
53 In his little book called Magic and Fetishism (Constable, 1906).
54 The Golden Bough, p. 74.
55 See Preface to the second edition of The Golden Bough.
56 In his interesting and standard work, Chinese Characteristics, ch. xxvi.
57 Chinese Characteristics, p. 289.
58 Ibid., p. 306.
59 Chinese Characteristics, p. 291.
60 Ibid., pp. 292–3.
61 Ibid., p. 313.
62 Chinese Characteristics, pp. 294 and 295.
63 Also if she heard of General Chaffee’s remarks to an American Methodist audience in New York not long ago. While praising the work of the missionaries, he told his audience that he met many of the most prominent Chinamen while at Pekin, and he was obliged to say that he did not meet a single intelligent Chinaman who expressed a desire to embrace the Christian religion. (Reported in the Hong Kong Daily Press of May 9th, 1903.)
64 The classical quotation commonly seen over the door of a temple is: “Worship the gods as if they were present.”
65 Chinese Characteristics, pp. 299–300.
66 Ibid., p. 305.
67 Chinese Characteristics, p. 288.
68 See p. 78 of Anti-Nunquam.
69 See p. 164 of Science and Education Essays, by T. H. Huxley (Macmillan & Co.; 1895).
70 The Christian Faith in Japan, pp. 42, 43.
71 The Christian Faith in Japan, pp. 128–9.
72 See chapter ii. of Conventional Lies of our Civilisation, by Max Nordau.
73 Ibid.
74 P. 439 of the Proceedings of the S. P. R.
75 P. 441 of the Proceedings of the S. P. R.