...at the Request of tJie Christian Evidence Society (London, 1Я71). He says there (p. 49): — • " What Robespierre is reported to have said with reference...Pantheistic philosophers to be true in regard to nature." This is no doubt a striking saying, but it is a mistake to ascribe it to Robespierre, who, if he ever...

...corrupted circles it may, but with the miserable, the poor, and the oppressed it will never be popular. If there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one. In the last century, infidelity, patronised by most of the literati of Europe, backed by the example...

...delivered at the Request of the Christian Evidence Society (London, 1871). He says there (p. 49): — " What Robespierre is reported to have said with reference...Pantheistic philosophers to be true in regard to nature." This is no doubt a striking saying, but it is a mistake to ascribe it to Robespierre, who, if he ever...

...delivered at the Bequest of the Christian Evidence Society (London, 1871). He says there (p. 49) :— " What Robespierre is reported to have said with reference...and national well-being, that, if there were not a Ood, it would be necessary to invent one, is felt by Pantheistic philosophers to be true in regard...

...attempt, from him, rather seems like a carrying out of the maxim of the French esprit fort, who said, ' If there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one; ' for it is a novelty to find him taking the Theistic (we cannot say the Christian) side, and arguing...

...to feel a dread creeping over it of a sure judgment that was to come ? A shrewd thinker said once, that if there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one : and so, in guarded language, the keen philosophic mind which has but just passed away, leaving us...

...atheist, and not only maintained the being of God, but held that religion was so necessary for men, that if there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one. The little church bears to this day the inscription — " Deo erexit Voltaire " (Voltaire built this...

...attempt, from him, rather seems like a carrying out of the maxim of the French esprit fort, who said, ' If there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one; ' for it is a novelty to find him taking the Theistic (we cannot say the Christian) side, and arguing...

...principally because they consider religion to be a sort of political necessity, or as Voltaire once said, " If there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one." These evils, and such as these, with an open denial of the supremacy and Divinity of Christianity,...

...endeavor.2 It was, perhaps, the same idea that Voltaire intended to express in the coarser phrase, that, if there were not a God, it would be necessary to invent one. For the purposes of the moral life, however, religious aspiration must not be allowed to evaporate...