[71] _La Paix méditations historiques et religieuses_, par A. Gratry,
prêtre de l'Oratoire.--Septième méditation: l'Angleterre.

[72] _The Constitution of Man_, by G. Combe. The popular edition was
printed at the expense of Mr. Henderson.

[73] _Infidelity: its aspects, causes, and agencies_, by Thomas Pearson.
People's edition, 1854, page 263.

[74] _Auguste Comte et la Philosophie positive_, par E. Littré, page
276.

[75] "Positivism, within the last quarter of a century, has become an
active, and even fashionable mode of thought, and nowhere more so than
amongst certain literary and intellectual circles in England." _The
Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of modern Criticism, Lectures on M.
Renan's 'Vie de Jésus,'_--by John Tulloch, D.D., Principal of the
College of St. Mary in the University of St. Andrew. Macmillan and Co.,
1864.

[76] See Pearson: _Infidelity_, particularly page 316, and _Christianity
and Secularism, the public discussion_--, particularly page 8.

[77]--_dans le siècle_.

[78] Vapereau's _Dictionnaire des contemporains_--Art. HOLYOAKE.

[79] I have had in view here the first numbers of _The Secular World_,
and of _The National Reformer, Secular Advocate_, for 1864.