In a reply to both Whitby and Collins, written under the pseudonym Phileleutherus Lipsiensis (which means something like “the lover of freedom from Leipzig”—an obvious allusion to Collins’s urging of “free thinking”), Bentley made the obvious point that the variant readings that Mill had accumulated could not render the foundation of the Protestant faith insecure, since the readings existed even before Mill had noticed them. He didn’t invent them; he only pointed them out!
