p.Es ist eine logische Klarheit, eine Einfachheit der Darstellung, eine berzeugende Kraft der Beweisfhrung, ein einleuchtender Zusammenhang des Ganzen verbunden mit wrdiger Haltung der Polemik, philosophischer audi volkswagen centre melksham Bildung und freier Liberalitt des Standpunkts in diesem Buch, vermge welcher es als meisterhaft anerkannt werden muss.' On the other hand, there are the letters from Bolingbroke to Pope quoted above there is the undoubted fact that Pope, Shaftesbury, and Bolingbroke so far agreed with one another that they were all ardent disciples of the optimistic school and, it must be added, there is the utter absence of anything distinctively Christian in that poem in which one would naturally have expected to find it.For, to say the least of it, the 'Essay on Man' might have been written by an audi volkswagen centre melksham unbeliever, as also might the Universal Prayer.' Warburton's testimony is to the same effect.The fact seems to have audi volkswagen centre melksham been that Pope was distracted by the counter influences of two very powerful but two very opposite minds.Rogers (Essays, vol.It was not, however, his essay, but his treatise on the 'Reasonableness of Christianity,' published in 1695 (the year before the publication of Toland's famous work), which brought Locke into the most direct collision audi volkswagen centre melksham with some of the orthodox of his day.Just in the same way as, before the middle of the century, a sort of spiritual inertness had enfeebled the vigour of High Churchmen on the one hand and of Nonconformists on the other, so also it was with the Latitude men.that of the irregularities of God's moral government here, for different ends the one to establish a future state, the others to discredit the being audi volkswagen centre melksham of a God.They set themselves with vigour to the work of destruction, but when this was completed what next? The religion which was to take the place of popular Christianity was at best a singularly vague and intangible sort of thing.In the sluggish calm that followed the abatement of old controversies men's minds reverted anew to the wide general principles on which the Reformation audi volkswagen centre melksham had been based, and, with the loss of power which attends uncertainty, were making tentative efforts to improve and strengthen the superstructure.M.See also Charles Leslie's Theological Works, audi volkswagen centre melksham vol.His dislike of all obscurity, and, in consequence, his almost morbid shrinking from all systematizing and from the use of all technical terms, form his point of contact with the Deists.
