... better keep it handy on the open shelf. G. SCHULZ-BEHREND University of Texas Shaftcsbury und the French Deists. By DOROTHYB. SCHLEGEL.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature, No. 15, 1956. Pp...

... but by the founder of modern deism, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. It further argues that both Blount and Dryden were aware of Herbert’s English manuscript of Religio Laici before 1682. Dryden wrote his Religio Laici in a hurry to preempt the deists’ Religio Laici ; Blount then used Dryden’s poem to avoid censorship...

... England. The latter story responds to what Maximillian Novak has called a “deist offensive”against England’s position within the eigh- teenthcentury world system. The subtitle, “That the two Tables written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was thecfirst Wn’ting in the World,”shows Defoe’s...

...” of Defoe’s characters (105) as they couch their dissenting perspectives within an assertion of the truth value such singularity enables. Although Defoe’s deist tendencies (Prince defines deism as a commitment to some form of natural religion and a rejection specifically of Trinitarian beliefs...

... by realistically incorporating the necessary complementary elements from the various philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, the English critical deists, and the early French deists. The principal English influences’ upon d’Holbach were the materi- alistic hedonism of Hobbes and the sensationalistic...

... to the public’s judgment without any distracting connection with Catholi- cism. It was necessary that both deists and Christians should recognize and acknowledge the philosophy expressed in the Essay on Man if the poem was to achieve its purposes. Pope’s “little bark” cannot “steer betwixt...

... the thesis that “The moral sense of the sentimentalist [fictionist] is the same, or virtually the same, as the inner sense or sentiment inttrieur of the deist-the most obnoxious feature of deism to orthodoxy because this sense is prior to religion and therefore independent of it”; (2) a catalogue...

... had to be actively regulated and modeled on the best forms. Such were the beliefs of the youthful Voltaire which transformed the little Jansenist Arouet into a nimble- witted pupil of the Jesuits and, ultimately, into the worldly rationalist, the complacently optimistic deist pleased...

... greatness.” Akenside was a deist and a republican. Dr. Kahrl believes that if Smollett were satirizing Aken- side for offending the Scotch, the novelist would have had a Scotch- man as well as Pallet and Jolter disgrace the Physician. Yet, as Howard S. Buck, in the article cited by Dr. Kahrl...

... that the latter admitted the validity of the metaphysical proofs (p. 62). Thus the deists, Pascal, and the Christians are of one mind on that point. Several Christian confessions make it an article of faith that God can be apprehended by reason alone. Hence the following statement of the author...

..., “Latitudinarianism and the English Deists”; Gerard Reedy, S.J., “Spinoza, Stillingfleet, Prophecy, and ‘Enlightenment David Berman, “Deism, Immortality, and the Art of Theological Lying”; J. A. Leo Lemay, “The Amerindian in the Early American Enlightenment: Deistic Satire in Robert...

... means : “il renforce, condense, ou amalgame ; il n’invente jamais” (page 244)-and yet he transforms the undis- tinguished narrative of his source into vivid and dramatic prose. Since the Apollonius legend had already been revived by critical Deists in the late seventeenth...

.... ENGLISH Aldridge, Alfred Owen. Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series, Vol. 41, Part 2, 1951. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, June, 1951. Pp. 297-385. $1.50...

.... Bainton, Travail of Religious Liberty (Boston, 1953); H. H. Saunderson, Way of Heresy (Boston, 1956); and see also the standard histories of Unitarianism. KINGSBURY BADGER 91 necessity to discuss the deists’ arguments about miracles. Rather, any...

... in regeneration, [and] the imaginative myth of the poet culminating in prophetic potency” (p. 304). We do not read much concerning the four chapter-heading addresses ofjerusalem, but, I suppose, as three are directed to the “sects” of Jews, Deists, and Christians, these might be figured...

... into vivid and dramatic prose. Since the Apollonius legend had already been revived by critical Deists in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries for the campaign against Christianity, Professor Seznec might perhaps have noted that Flaubert’s use of it is not without precedent...

..., for instead of assuming moral or theological principles in conflict with those of Shaftesbury and the deists, it is based squarely on their premises concerning the benevolence of God and the harmony and moral order of the universe. Before Wollaston, the doctrine formed the basis of a pamphlet, Free...

.... G. SCHULZ-BEHREND University of Texas Shaftcsbury und the French Deists. By DOROTHYB. SCHLEGEL.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature, No. 15, 1956. Pp. 143. $4.75. Shaftesbury has long enjoyed great prestige in England...

... this study divides into two distinct parts: (1) a brief critique of sensibility and Deism, in which Professor Foster advances the thesis that “The moral sense of the sentimentalist [fictionist] is the same, or virtually the same, as the inner sense or sentiment inttrieur of the deist-the most...

...). Luis VClez de Guevara: El Embustr Acre- ditado. Granada : Universidad de Granada, Colleccih Filol6gica, XII, 1956. Pp. 364. Roberts, Kimberley S. An Anthology of Old Portuguese. Lisboa: Livraria Portugal, 1956. Pp. 435. Schlegel, Dorothy B. Shaftesbury and the French Deists...