cal thought has so
changed, that his once famous book is a little out of date at the
present day. Judged by its intrinsic merits, William Law's answer to
Tindal would also deserve to be ranked among the very best of the books
which were written against the Deists; but like almost all the works of
this most able and excellent man, it has fallen into undeserved
oblivion. Leslie's _Short and Easy Method with a Deist_ is also
admirable in its way.]

[Footnote 166: But it is no want of charity to say that his Roman
Catholicism sat very lightly upon him. He himself confesses it in a
letter to Atterbury.]

[Footnote 167: Pope was also clearly influenced by Shaftesbury's
arguments that virtue was to be practised and sin avoided, not for fear
of punishment or hope of reward, but for their own sakes. Witness the
verse in the Universal Prayer:--

'What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This teach me _more than_ hell to shun,
That _more than_ heaven pursue.']

[Footnote 168: See Hunt's _History of Religious Thought in England_,
vol. ii. p. 369, and Lechler's _Geschichte des Englischen Deismus_, p.
219.]

[Footnote 169: But Shaftesbury was bitterly opposed to one part of
Locke's philosophy. 'He was one of the first,' writes Mr. Morell
(_History of Modern Philosophy_, i. 203), 'to point out the dangerous
influence which Locke's total rejection of all innate practical
principles was likely to exert upon the interests of morality.' 'It was
Mr. Locke,' wrote Shaftesbury, 'that struck at all fundamentals, threw
all order and virtue out of the world, and made the very ideas of these
(which are the same as those of God) unnatural and without foundation in
our minds.' See also Bishop Fitzgerald in _Aids to Faith_.]

[Footnote 170: Locke's _Works_, vol. iv. p. 96.]

[Footnote 171: 'My lord, I read the revelation of Holy Scriptures with a
full assurance that all it delivers is true.'--Locke's _Works_, vol. iv.
341.]

[Footnote 172: Locke's _Works_, vol. vii. p. 166.]

[Footnote 173: Locke's _Works_, vol. vii. p. 188, Preface to the Reader
of 2nd Vindication.]

[Footnote 174: Locke's _Works_, vol. iv. 259, 260.]

[Footnote 175: 'Mr. Locke, the honour of this age and the instructor of
the future'.... 'That great philosopher'.... 'It was Mr. Locke's love of
it [Christianity] that seems principally to have exposed him to his
pupil's [Lord Shaftesbury's] bitterest insults.'--Dedication of _T