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| | Samuel Clarke |
 | | In 1706 he wrote a refutation of Dr. Henry Dodwell's views on the immortality of the soul, and this drew him into controversy with Anthony Collins. |
 | | Clarke, though in no way an original thinker, was eminent in theology, mathematics, metaphysics and philology, but his chief strength lay in his logical power. |
 | | The materialism of Hobbes, the pantheism of Spinoza, the empiricism of Locke, the determinism of Leibniz, Collins' necessitarianism, Dodwell's denial of the natural immortality of the soul, rationalistic attacks on Christianity, and the morality of the sensationalists -- all these he opposed with a thorough conviction of the truth of the principles which he advocated. |
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