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 | | (See Bolingbroke, >Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount, Baron Saint John of Lydiard Tregoze.) > >Nature and scope > >Though an initial use of the term occurred in 16th-century France, the later >appearance of the doctrine on the Continent was stimulated by the >translation and adaptation of the English models. |
| | This work, which began >with Lord Herbert of Cherbury and moved through the political philosopher >Thomas Hobbes, Charles Blount, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Collins, >Thomas Woolston, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Chubb, and Viscount >Bolingbroke, fixed the canon of who should be included among the Deist >writers. |
| | Herbert was not known as a Deist in his day, but Blount >and the rest who figured in Leland's book would have accepted the term Deist >as an appropriate designation for their religious position. |
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