[Footnote 7:  An ingenious gentleman, well versed in history, has put forth a volume called “The Restoration of Faith,” in which he teaches that I have no right to a conscience or to a God, until I adopt his historical conclusions.  I leave his co-religionists to confute his portentous heresy; but in fact it is already done more than enough in a splendid article of the “Westminster Review,” July, 1852.]

[Footnote 8:  I seem to have been understood now to say that a knowledge of the Bible was not a pre-requisite of the Protestant Reformation.  What I say is, that at this period I learned the study of the Classics to have caused and determined that it should then take place; moreover, I say that a free study of other books than sacred ones is essential, and always was, to conquer superstition.]

[Footnote 9:  I am asked why Italy witnessed no improvement of spiritual doctrine.  The reply is, that she did.  The Evangelical movement there was quelled only by the Imperial arms and the Inquisition.  I am also asked why Pagan Literature did not save the ancient church from superstition.  I have always understood that the vast majority of Christian teachers during the decline were unacquainted with Pagan literature, and that the Church at an early period forbade it.]

[Footnote 10:  My friend James Martineau, who insists that “a self-sustaining power” in a religion is a thing intrinsically inconceivable, need not have censured me for coming to the conclusion that it does not exist in Christianity.  In fact, I entirely agree with him; but at the time of which I here write, I had only taken the first step in his direction; and I barely drew a negative conclusion, to which he perfectly assents.  To my dear friend’s capacious and kindling mind, all the thought here expounded are prosaic and common; being to him quite obvious, so far as they are true.  He is right in looking down upon them; and, I trust, by his aid, I have added to my wisdom since the time of which I write.  Yet they were to me discoveries once, and he must not be displeased at my making much of them in this connexion.]

[Footnote 11:  It is the fault of my critics that I am forced to tell the reader this is exhibited in my “Hebrew Monarchy.”]

[Footnote 12:  It in not to the purpose to urge the political minority of the Roman wife.  This was a mere inference from the high power of the bond of the husband.  The father had right of death over his son, and (as the lawyers stated the case), the wife was on the level of one of the children.]

[Footnote 13:  1 Cor. vii. 2-9]

[Footnote 14:  Namely, in the Armenian, Syrian, and Greek churches, and in the Romish church in exact proportion as Germanic and poetical influences have been repressed; that is, in proportion as the hereditary Christian doctrine has been kept pure from modern innovations.]

[Footnote 15:  In a tract republished from the Northampton Mercury Longman, 1853.]