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Updated: June 3, 2025
Cowper was probably thinking of the Savoyard Vicar when he wrote the energetic lines in the Task, beginning "Haste now, philosopher, and set him free," scornfully defying the deist to rescue apostate man.
Now these are matters in which man, without any reference to any higher being, or to any future state, is very deeply interested. Every human being, be he idolater, Mahometan, Jew, Papist, Socinian, Deist, or Atheist, naturally loves life, shrinks from pain, desires comforts which can be enjoyed only in communities where property is secure.
Faber says, 'evident design must needs imply a designer, and that 'evident design shines out in every part of the universe. But he also tells us 'we reason exclusively, if with the Deist we thence infer the existence of one and only one Supreme Designer. By Gillespie and M'Neil, the same truth is told in other words.
He pondered on the beneficence of the comic spirit. Hugh was a born Deist. It gave him no trouble at all to believe that since the paintings of Velasquez and the great outdoors which he had seen, were beautiful, so much the more beautiful must be that God whom he had not seen. It seemed reasonable. As for the horrors like Uncle Hugh's affair well, they must be put in for chiaroscuro.
A poor young lady of the elder branch of the Peyrades, who owned the little estate of la Peyrade, for we ourselves are Peyrades of Canquoelle, but the two branches inherit from one another, well, this young lady married, six years before the Revolution, a barrister who, after the fashion of the times, was Voltairean, that is to say, an unbeliever, or, if you choose, a deist.
So far as we know none of his ancestors were literary people. The Arouets had never written a line. The Abbe le Chaulieu was his godfather, and, although an abbe, was a deist who cared nothing about his religion except in connection with his salary. Voltaire's father wanted to make a lawyer of him, but he had no taste for law. At the age of 10 he entered the college of Louis le Grand.
His exclusive claims are disallowed or ignored, and this not by accident, but of set purpose. These secret orders are under bonds not to honor Christ as he claims, lest the Jew, or the Deist, or the Mohammedan, all of whom they seek to enroll in equal membership, should be offended. When the higher "degrees" of Masonry allude to Christ and Christianity, it is but as one amidst many equals.
Consequently they exclude, once for all, from political supremacy, all the different servants of God Catholic, Protestant, or Deist as being at once behind-hand and a cause of disturbance.
"It is," replied he, eying her with cold cruelty. "Then hear my determination. I have sworn fidelity to Gunther, and if I must choose between you, I give myself to him. I will not become a Christian, for such was my oath; but I will abjure Judaism." "And become a Deist?" "Call it what you will. I shall adore the God of love and mercy." "A Deist!
Here, again, the authorities were divided. Her mother was pious in a primitive way, though holding aloof from priestly influences. The grandmother, a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and of Voltaire, had renounced the Catholic creed, and was what was then called a Deist.
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