CHAPTER IX.

INCREDULITY AND RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE IN EUROPE THE FRUITS OF PROTESTANTISM.

Lamentable symptoms of these from the beginning of Protestantism--Remarkable religious crisis in the latter part of the seventeenth century--Bossuet and Leibnitz--The Jansenists--Their influence--Dictionary of Bayle--The epoch when that work appeared--State of opinions among the Protestants, 60