[In the article on Faustus Socinus Bayle continues the story of the sect's persecution but he also makes original observations about the epistemology and the psychology of religion, and about human behaviour. The Socinians questioned the Scriptures' divine inspiration, and rejected, inter alia, the doctrines of the Trinity and Hell. Orthodox Christians responded with the argument that carried weight with civic educators, that to deny divine retribution was to weaken the fear of God and so undermine public morals. In Remarks (I) and (L), Bayle restates his proposition of empirical politics (made earlier in his Pensées diverses sur la comète) that the presumption of a causal connection between absence of such beliefs and unsociable conduct was refuted by the evidence.]