The American Deists : Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic /
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I believe in one God, Creator of the universe / Benjamin Franklin
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against errors / Thomas Jefferson
- Nature is God's revelation / Ethan Allen
- Let man study nature's laws! / Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney
- My own mind is my own church / Thomas Paine
- Reason, the glory of our nature / Elihu Palmer
- The reasoning power, celestial guest, the stamp upon the soul impress'd / Philip Freneau
- The temple of reason : indefense of pure religion
- Prospect, or, View of the moral world : virtue, the highest dignity of man
- The theophilanthropist : the love of God and man
- Sources and permissions
- Bibliographic essay.