The Secret of the East
The Secret of the East
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They veiled their reve- lations in the language of allegory, like Eckardt, Silesius, and Campanella, or they published their views in the name of former free thinkers, and for the feigned purpose of refuting them. The latter plan was adopted by Reuchlin, Lipsius, and Wool- ston, and with eminent success by the precursor of Voltaire, Lucilio Vanini. Thomas Woolston's Apology is not weaker than his statement of the heresies he pretends to- controvert. But Vanini's Amphitheatre anticipates the bes...t arguments of Voltaire, Hume, and Thomas Paine. The mas- terly exposition of these arguments — in pretended quotations from the writings of obscure heretics- is followed by a not less masterly burlesque of the monkish method of controversy, clumsy dog- matism, personalities, and swaggering threats. Yet this scathing satire not only received the imprimatur of the government censor, but was published with the special recommendation of an ecclesiastical college, and did, probably, more to disseminate anti-clerical tenets than any work of the professed reformers.
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They veiled their reve- lations in the language of allegory, like Eckardt, Silesius, and Campanella, or they published their views in the name of former free thinkers, and for the feigned purpose of refuting them. The latter plan was adopted by Reuchlin, Lipsius, and Wool- ston, and with eminent success by the precursor of Voltaire, Lucilio Vanini. Thomas Woolston's Apology is not weaker than his statement of the heresies he pretends to- controvert. But Vanini's Amphitheatre anticipates the bes...t arguments of Voltaire, Hume, and Thomas Paine. The mas- terly exposition of these arguments — in pretended quotations from the writings of obscure heretics- is followed by a not less masterly burlesque of the monkish method of controversy, clumsy dog- matism, personalities, and swaggering threats. Yet this scathing satire not only received the imprimatur of the government censor, but was published with the special recommendation of an ecclesiastical college, and did, probably, more to disseminate anti-clerical tenets than any work of the professed reformers.
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