ANALOGY OF RELIGION NATURAL AND REVEALED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE by BUTLER, JOSEPH

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As New. 1843. Hardcover. 0935005412 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 1843 edition # 14 -- Good condtion, cloth cover worn, but text very clean and bright, no writing or marking or highlighting. Tear on first page not affecting text, else very good condition. -- Written to counter the prevalence of deism, which Butler saw as the consequence of the new universe, constructed after Copernicus, Newton and Descartes had destroyed the old, thisbook is perhaps the one lasting work to come out of the deist controversy. - 'Hume, who sent Butler his Essays in 1741, ranked him with Locke and Berkeley as one of the originators of the experimental method in moral science. John Stuart Mill considered that the arguments adduced by Butler were the turning point in his father's translation to scepticism. Newman marked avery different era in his religious opinions by his study of this work.… Read More