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Aye, and when this is done what will be left? Christianity will be purified back again into a vague Deism, which one would have thought had proved itself toothless and impotent, centuries ago.
He gave exactly what was needed at that moment of history what appeared self-evident; wherefore no one so much as thought of asking for detailed proofs. His deism, his statements concerning the "state of nature" and the "social contract," etc., were at once recognised by the people of his day as eternal verities. What need for discussion or investigation?
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, one of the first to systematise deism, when in doubt whether he should publish his "De Veritate," as advised by Grotius, prayed for a sign, and heard sounds "like nothing on earth, which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted." Bacon, Francis, was warned in a dream of his father's approaching end, which occurred in a few days. Theologians.
It seemed as though Miss Lizzie did it to be mean. Then Emmy Lou's cheeks grew hot. She put the thought quickly away that she might forget it; but the wedge was entered. Teachers were no longer infallible. Emmy Lou had questioned the motives of pedagogic deism. And so Emmy Lou and Hattie were separated. But there were three new little girls near Emmy Lou. Their kid button-shoes had tassels.
His System of Nature develops a purely naturalistic theory of the universe, in which the prevalent Deism is rejected: there is no God; material Nature stands out alone, self-sufficing, dominis privata superbis. The book suggests how the Lucretian theory of development might have led to the idea of Progress. But it sent a chilly shock to the hearts of many and probably convinced few.
And now with flashing eyes, he called upon Gunther to write. "To his Eminence, Cardinal Megazzi; "It has come to my knowledge that the absurd sect which originated in Bohemia, is spreading its pernicious tenets even to our capital. A heart-broken father has this day come before me to accuse his daughter of Deism.
The clergy did their utmost to bar all intercourse with the land where deism and revolution held sway, and when the Roman Catholic Church and the British Government combined for years on a single object, it was little wonder they succeeded. Nelson's victory at Trafalgar was celebrated by a Te Deum in the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Quebec.
They all protested vigorously against the assumption that Deism was in any way opposed to Christianity rightly understood.
The immorality of Hebert, and the base compliances of the Convention, for some months turned the churches into "temples of reason." The ambition, perhaps the vanity, of Robespierre, has now permitted them to be dedicated to the "Supreme Being," and the people, under such auspices, are to be conducted from atheism to deism.
That cold Deism he had held so loosely broke into passion. The humblest phrases of worship, of entreaty, swept across the brain. 'Could one ever have guessed, he asked her, his words stumbling and broken, 'that such happiness was possible? She shook her head, smiling at him. 'Yes, certainly! if one has read poems and novels. Nothing to me is ever more than I expect, generally less.
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