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Page 173. The Reign of Terror. For a reliable introduction to
the history of the French Revolution, see L. Gershoy, The French
Revolution (1932); G. Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revo-
lution (Princeton, 1947); and H. von Sybel, History of the French
Revolution, 4 vols. (1869).
See also A. Aulard, Christianity and the French Revolution
(London, 1927), in which the account is carried through 1802—an
excellent study.
Page 175. The Masses and the Privileged Classes. See H. von
Hoist, Lowell Lectures on the French Revolution, lecture 1; also
Taine, Ancient Regime; and A. Young, Travels in France.
Page 177. Retribution. See Thos. H. Gill, The Papal Drama, bk.
10; E. de Pressense, The Church and the French Revolution, bk. 3,
ch. 1.
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Page 177. The Atrocities of the Reign of Terror. See M. A.
Thiers, History of the French Revolution (New York, ed. 1890, tr. by
F. Shoberl), vol. 3, pp. 42-44, 62-74, 106; F. A. Mignet, History of
the French Revolution (Bohn, ed. 1894), ch. 9, par. 1; Sir Archibald
Alison, History of Europe, From the Commencement of the French
Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons, vol. I, ch. 14 (New
York, ed. 1872), vol. 1, pp. 293-312.
Page 179. 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.”
From 1816-1981, the American Bible Society alone published
98,200,951 copies of the whole Bible and 3,396,127,592 copies of
portions of the Bible. In 1981 3,365,779 copies of the whole Bible
were published by the ABS. Other Bible societies would add many
millions more copies to these figures.
Page 179. Foreign Missions. The missionary activity of the early
Christian church had virtually died out by the year 1000, and was
succeeded by the military campaigns of the Crusades. The Refor-
mation era saw little foreign mission work. The pietistic revival
produced some missionaries. The work of the Moravian Church in
the eighteenth century was remarkable, and there were some mis-
sionary societies formed by the British for work in colonized North