Reason the only oracle of man, or A compenduous [sic] system of natural religion [electronic resource] : Alternately adorned with confutations of a variety of doctrines incompatible to it; deduced from the most exalted ideas which we are able to form of the divine and human characters, and from the universe in general. By Ethan Allen, Esq;.
1784
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Reason the only oracle of man, or A compenduous [sic] system of natural religion [electronic resource] : Alternately adorned with confutations of a variety of doctrines incompatible to it; deduced from the most exalted ideas which we are able to form of the divine and human characters, and from the universe in general. By Ethan Allen, Esq;.
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Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.
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Bennington: state of Vermont : Printed by Haswell & Russell, M,DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Vermont -- Bennington.
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English
Description
xxi, [2], 24-477, [3] p. ; 8⁰.
Note
The first publication in the United States openly directed against the Christian religion. Ethan Allen's authorship is called into question by G.P. Anderson in his "Who wrote 'Ethan Allen's Bible'?" (New England quarterly 10 (1937): 685-696). According to Anderson, Allen revised and published the manuscript of the recently deceased Thomas Young (1732-1777), with whom he may have discussed some of the contents some years earlier. The greater part of the edition was destroyed by fire in the printing office; according to Anderson "Out of fifteen hundred copies printed, it is doubtful if as many as one hundred escaped destruction." - With a half-title.
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Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Evans, 18322
McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 69
Sabin, 802
English Short Title Catalog, W28994.
McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 69
Sabin, 802
English Short Title Catalog, W28994.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Young, Thomas, 1732-1777.
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