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Page 280. The Masses and the Privileged Classes.--On social conditions
prevailing in France prior to the period of the Revolution, see H. von Holst, Lowell
Lectures on the French Revolution, lecture 1; also Taine, Ancien Regime, and A.
Young, Travels in France.
Page 283. Retribution.--For further details concerning the retributive character
of the French Revolution see Thos. H. Gill, The Papal Drama, b. 10; Edmond de
Pressense, The Church and the French Revolution, b. 3, ch. 1.
Page 284. The Atrocities of the Reign of Terror.--See M. A. Thiers, History of the
French Revolution, vol. 3, pp. 42-44, 62-74, 106 (New York, 1890, translated by F.
Shoberl); F. A. Mignet, History of the French Revolution, ch. 9, par. 1 (Bohn, 1894); A.
Alison, History of Europe, 17891815, vol. 1, ch. 14 (New York, 1872, vol. 1, pp. 293-
312).
Page 287. 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. . . . The various languages in which those four millions
were written, including such bygone speech as the Moeso-Gothic of Ulfilas and the
Anglo-Saxon of Bede, are set down as numbering about fifty."-What Is the Bible
Society? rev. ed., 1904, p. 23.
The American Bible Society reported a distribution from 1816 through 1955 of
481,149,365 Bibles, Testaments, and portions of Testaments. To this may be added
over 600,000,000 Bibles or Scripture portions distributed by the British and Foreign
Bible Society. During the year 1955 alone the American Bible Society distributed a
grand total of 23,819,733 Bibles, Testaments, and portions of Testaments throughout
the world.
The Scriptures, in whole or in part, have been printed, as of December, 1955, in
1,092 languages; and new languages are constantly being added.
Page 288. Foreign missions.--The missionary activity of the early Christian
church has not been duplicated until modern times. It had virtually died out by the
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