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stries," etc., ch. 1, par. 32, 34; ch. 2, par. 6; ch. 3, par. 14; ch. 18, par. 5 (with note); S. Smiles, "The Huguenots in France after the Revocation," ch. 2, par. 8; ch. 10, par. 30; ch. 12, par. 2-4; J. A. Wylie, "History of Protestantism," bk. 22, ch. 6, par. 3. Page 276. THE REIGN OF TERROR.--On the responsibility of misguided leaders, in both church and state, and particularly in the church, for the scenes of the French Revolution, see W. M. Sloane, "The French Revolution and Religious Reform," Preface, and ch. 2, par. 1, 2, 10-14 (1901 ed., pp. vii-ix, 19, 20, 26-31, 40); P. Schaff, in "Papers of the American Society of Church History," Vol. I, pp. 38, 44; S. Smiles, "The Huguenots after the Revocation," ch. 18, par. 4, 6, 9, 10, 12-16, 27; J. G. Lorimer, "An Historical Sketch of the Protestant Church of France," ch. 8, par. 6, 7; A. Galton, "Church and State in France, 1300-1907," ch. 3, sec. 2 (London ed., 1907); Sir J. Stephen, "Lectures on the History of France," lecture 16, par. 60. Page 280. THE MASSES AND THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.--On social conditions prevailing in France prior to the period of the Revolution, see H. von Holst, "Lowell Lectures on the French Revolution," lecture 1; also Taine, "Ancient Regime," and A. Young, "Travels in France." Page 283. RETRIBUTION.--For further details concerning the retributive character of the French Revolution, see Thos. H. Gill, "The Papal Drama," bk. 10; E. de Pressense, "The Church and the French Revolution," bk. 3, ch. 1. Page 284. THE ATROCITIES OF THE REIGN OF TERROR.--See M. A. Thiers, "History of the French Revolution," Vol. III, pp. 42-44, 62-74, 106 (N. Y. ed., 1890, tr. by F. Shoberl); F. A. Mignet, "History of the French Revolution," ch. 9, par. 1 (Bohn ed., 1894); A. Alison, "History of Europe," 1789-1815, Vol. I, ch. 14 (N. Y. ed., 1872, Vol. 1, pp. 293-312). Page 287. THE CIRCULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.--In 1804, according to Mr. William Canton, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, "all the Bibles extant in the world, in manuscript or in print, counting every version in every land, were computed at not many more than four millions.... The various languages in which those four millions were written, including such bygone speech as the Moeso-Gothic of Ulfilas and the Anglo-Saxon of Bede, are set down as numbering about fifty."--"_What Is the Bible Society?_" p. 23 (rev. ed., 1904). A hundred years later, at the close of its first centenary
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