Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Religion, Religious Authority, Unbelief, Philosophy

    Questions whether Roden B W Noel's claim that the French are 'given over' to 'philosophical Pantheism' will not be understood by his Exeter Hall audience, insisting that 'Pantheism may, in a great many cases, be the habit of mind that is averse to appealing to first causes and using solemn names upon all occasions'. Considers Noel unphilosophical for condemning a 'nation that got so far as to laugh at priestcraft'.