[28] The author of "Natural Religion" thinks it mistaken in so declaring itself. "Its invectives against God and against Religion do not prove that it is atheistic, but only that it thinks itself so. And why does it think itself so? Because God and Religion are identified in its view with the Catholic Church; and the Catholic Church is a thing so very redoubtable that we need scarcely inquire why it is passionately hated and feared" (p. 37). But this is an error. God and Religion are not identified, in the view of the Revolution, with the Catholic Church. It will be evident to anyone who will read its accredited organs that it is as implacably hostile to religious Protestantism as to Catholicism. Perhaps I may be allowed to refer, on this subject, to some remarks of my own in an article entitled "Free Thought--French and English," published in this REVIEW, in February last, p. 241. [29] See his Preface to the Second Edition. [30] Warburton, a shrewd observer enough, expressed the same view a hundred years ago, with characteristic truculence:--"Mathematicians--I do not mean the inventors and geniuses amongst them, whom I honour, but the Demonstrators of others' inventions, who are ten times duller and prouder than a damned poet--have a strange aversion to everything that smacks of religion."--_Letters to Hurd_, xix. [31] Preface to Second Edition, p. vii. [32] _Ibid._, p. v. [33] Summa, 1^ma 2^de qu. 60, art. 3. [34] "Grammar of Assent," p. 389. 5th ed. [35] What Wordsworth says is-- "We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love, And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend." This is widely different from the nude proposition that "we live by admiration." [36] See also p. 127. [37] A good deal of information about Theophilanthropy and the Theophilanthropists, in an undigested and, indeed, chaotic state, will be found in Grégoire's "Histoire des Sectes Religieuses," vol. i. [38] The Theophilanthropists were most anxious that the object of their worship should not be supposed to be the Christian God. Thus in one of their hymns their Deity is invoked as follows:-- "Non, tu n'es pas le _Dieu_ dont le prêtre est l'apôtre, Tu n'as point par la Bible enseigné les humains." [39] The author of "Natural Religion" says, Talleyrand; I do not know on what authority. Grégoire writes:--"Au Directoire même on le raillait sur son zèle thêophilantropique. Un de ses collègues, dit-on, lui proposait de se faire pendre et de ressusciter le troisième jour, comme l'infaillible moyen de faire triompher sa secte, et Carnot lui décoche dans son _Mémoire_ des épigrammes sanglantes à ce sujet."--_Histoire des Sectes Religieuses_, vol. I. p. 406. Talleyrand was never a member of the Directory. [40] Preface to second edition. [41] "Eight Lectures on Miracles," p. 50. [42] _Ibid._ See Dr. Mozley's note on this passage.