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| | FLUDD, or FLUD, ROBERT - LoveToKnow Article on FLUDD, or FLUD, ROBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Though he had openly opposed seces-sion before the election of Lincoln, his conduct after that event,especially after his breach with Buchanan, fell under suspicion,and he was accused of having sent large stores of governmentarms to Southern arsenals in anticipation of the Civil War. |
 | | Fluddssystem may be described as a materialistic pantheism, which,allegorically interpreted, he put forward as containing the realmeaning of Christianity, revealed to Adam by God himself,handed down by tradition to Moses and the patriarchs, and re-vealed a second time by Christ. |
 | | The opinions of Fludd had thehonour of being refuted by Kepler, Gassendi and Mersenne.Though rapt in mystical speculation, Fludd was a man of varied attainments. |
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