thrice noble,
chaste, and virtuous, but again somewhat fantastical and original-brained,
generous Margaret Newcastle."
_Clarke_, Samuel (1675-1729), English theologian of latitudinarian
principles.
_South_, Robert (1634-1716), controversial writer and preacher.
_Tillotson_, John (1630-1694), a popular theological writer of
rationalistic tendency.
_Leibnitz's Pre-established Harmony_. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
(1646-1716), a German philosopher, represented the world as consisting of
an infinite number of independent substances or monads related to each
other in such a way (by the pre-established harmony) as to form one
universe. Cf. Coleridge's "Destiny of Nations," 38 ff.:
"Others boldlier think
That as one body seems the aggregate
Of atoms numberless, each organized;
So by a strange and dim similitude
Infinite myriads of self-conscious minds
Are an all-conscious spirit, which informs
With absolute ubiquity of thought
(His own eternal self-affirming act!)
All his involved Monads, that yet seem
With various province and apt agency
Each to pursue its own self-centering end."
P. 210, n. _And so by many_. "Two Gentlemen of Verona," ii, 7, 30.
P. 211. _hortus siccus_ [dry garden] _of Dissent_. Burke's "Reflections on
the French Revolution," Works, ed. Bohn, II, 287.
_John Huss_ (1373?-1415), Bohemian reformer and martyr.
_Jerome of Prague_, a follower of Huss who was burnt for heresy in 1416.
_Socinus_. Fausto Paulo Sozzini (1539-1604), an Italian theologian who
sought to simplify the doctrine of the Trinity.
_John Zisca_ (1370?-1424), a leader of the extreme Hussite party.
_Neal's History_. Daniel Neal (1648-1743) published his "History of the
Puritans" 1732-38.
_Calamy_, Edmund (1671-1732) published an "Account of the Ministers,
Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters who were
Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration of 1660" (1702 and 1713).
_Spinoza_, Baruch (1632-1677), a Dutch philosopher of Jewish parentage,
the chief representative of Pantheism, "the doctrine of one infinite
substance, of which all finite existences are modes or limitations."
_When he saw_. Cf. Coleridge's "Remorse," iv, 2, 100:
"When we saw nought but beauty; when we heard
The voice of that Almighty One who loved us
In every gale that breathed, and wave that murmur'd!"
_Proclus_ (410-485) and _Plotinus_ (204-270), philosophers of the
Neo
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