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p. 277, People say that you conceal: Oldenburg to Spinoza, November 15, 1675.

p. 277, I do not think it necessary: Letter LXXIII.

p. 277, The resurrection of Christ: Letter LXXV.

p. 278, My views of the Christian religion: To Dr. Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803.

p. 278, The whole history of these books: To John Adams, January 24, 1814.

p. 279, We must reduce our volume: To John Adams, October 12, 1813.

p. 279, You will next read the New Testament: To Peter Carr, August 10, 1787.

p. 280, The truth is that the greatest enemies: To John Adams, April 11, 1823.

p. 280, His parentage was obscure: To Dr. Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803.

p. 281, Among the sayings and discourses: To William Short, April 13, 1820.

p. 281, No one sees with greater pleasure than myself: To Timothy Pickering, February 27, 1821.

p. 282, We find in the writings of his biographers: To William Short, August 4, 1820.

p. 283, The diarist Henry Crabb Robinson put to Blake: Henry Crabb Robinson, Reminiscences, in The Portable Blake, ed. Alfred Kazin, Viking Press, 1946, p. 680.

p. 283, Christ, he said, took much after his mother: Ibid., pp. 692f.

p. 283, There is not one moral virtue: “The Everlasting Gospel” (spelling and punctuation modified).

p. 284, Jesus Christ belonged: “An Address, delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838,” in Nature, Addresses, and Lectures.

p. 284, Historical Christianity has fallen into the error: Ibid.

p. 285, I cannot but think that Jesus: Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, eds., Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910, p. 223.

p. 285, Is it not time to present: Ibid., p. 324.

p. 285, If Jesus came now into the world: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 277.

p. 285, The fear of degrading the character of Jesus: Ibid., p. 444.

p. 286, We think so meanly of man: Linda Allardt, ed., The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12, Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1976, p. 256.

p. 286, Christ preaches the greatness of Man: Ibid., p. 410.

p. 286, The world is divided on the fame: Ralph H. Orth and Alfred R. Ferguson, eds., The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 13, Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1977, p. 322.

p. 286, [The publisher James] Munroe seriously asked me: Ibid., p. 406.

p. 286, It is remarkable that the highest intellectual mood: H.G.O. Blake, ed., The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 7, Riverside Press, 1894, pp. 280f.

p. 287, It is necessary not to be Christian: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

p. 287, The true Christian teaching: “Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer,” trans. Aylmer Maude, Tolstoy’s Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence, Bergman Publications, 1967,pp. 166f.

p. 288, The reader should understand: Christ’s Christianity, trans. anonymous, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1885, pp. 319ff. (English modified).

p. 290, Up to the present time: Ibid., p. 326.

p. 290, What is “the good news”: The Antichristian.

p. 291, Jesus’ faith doesn’t prove itself: Ibid.

p. 291, In the whole psychology of the “Gospel”: Ibid.

p. 291, The word “son” expresses the entrance: Ibid.

p. 292, I must now make a serious draft: Preface to Androcles and the Lion.

p. 293, It was more than I could believe: Mohandas K. Gandhi, The Message of Jesus Christ, ed. Anand T. Hingorami, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1963, p. 11.

p. 293, My Christian friends have told me: Mohandas K. Gandhi, All Religions Are True, ed. Anand T. Hingorami, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1962, pp. 65f.

p. 294, When Jesus worked his miracles: B. V. Narasimha Swami, Self-Realization: Life and Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (8th ed.), Sri Ramanasramam, 1976, p. 121.

p. 301, When God confers miracles: Paul Jackson, S.J., trans., Sharafuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters, Paulist Press, 1980, p. 41.

p. 301, Jesus could do no miracles where belief hindered: Annotations to An Apology for the Bible (spelling and punctuation modified).

p. 302, Possibly my readers may not have studied: Preface to Androcles and the Lion.

p. 303, Many people want miracles: Stephen Mitchell, comp. and ed., Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn, Grove Press, 1976, pp. 99ff.