The American Deists : Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic /

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Autore principale: Walters, Kerry S.
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1992.
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Sommario:
  • 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.