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A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:J. M. Robertson CHAPTER XII I. THE RISE OF MODERN FREETHOUGHT § I. The Italian Influence. THE negative bearing of the Reformation on freethought is made clear by the historic fact that the new, currents of thought which broadly mark the beginning of the "modern spirit" arose in its despite, and derive originally from olltside its sphere. It is to Italy, where t... more »he political and social conditions always tended to frustrate the Inquisition, that we trace the rise alike of modern deism, modern Unitarianism, modern pantheism, modern physics, and the tendency to rational atheism. The deistic way of thinking, of course, prevailed long before it got that name and besides the vogue of Averroism we have noted the virtual deism of More's Utopia. The first explicit mention of deism noted by Hayle, however, is in the epistle dedicatory to the second and expanded edition of the
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IVERSITY OF CAL1FORNlA; SANTA ŁAP"BARA COLLE}ELIBRARY; CONTENTS; VOLUME n; CHAP, XII 1-TUE RISE OF ~tODER~ FREETHOUGHT; § J Thl' Italian Influellce The Sozzini Unitarianism; in Europe Effects in England A« less