[121] _The Future of Science_, p. 465.
[122] _Lost and Hostile Gospels_, Preface, p. 7.
[123] See Baring-Gould's _Study of St. Paul_, pp. 450-1.
[124] See Hepworth Dixon's curious work, _Spiritual Wives_, 1888, 2
vols.
[125] _Study of St. Paul_, p. 458.
[126] _History of European Morals_, i. p. 417.
[127] Cutten, _Psychological Christianity_, p. 157.
[128] Sanger, _History of Prostitution_, p. 116.
[129] See Blunt's _Dictionary of Sects_, art. "Manichæans."
[130] _De Civitate Dei_, ii. 4.
[131] Mosheim, _Cent. 2_, chap. v. sec. 4.
[132] _Dictionary of Sects_, p. 13.
[133] Lea, _Hist. of Sacerdotal Celibacy_, 1884, p. 42.
[134] Cited by Michelet, _Priests, Women, and Families_, p. 130.
[135] _Spiritual Wives_, ii. pp. 55-6.
[136] _Spiritual Wives_, pp. 176-7, 181.
[137] _Ibid._, pp. 84-6.
[138] _The Russian Church and Russian Dissent_, p. 201.
[139] Lea, _Hist. of Sacerdotal Celibacy_, p. 40.
[140] _Visit to the Russian Empire_, i. p. 254. Merejkowski, in his
historical novel, _Peter and Alexis_, gives a more detailed account of
the sexual ceremonies of this sect. See also Heard's description,
_Russian Church_, p. 258.
[141] _Russian Church and Russian Dissent_, p. 262.