Reason the only oracle of man: a compendious system of natural religion
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Boston |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:33:04Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:33:04Z |
| dc.date.created | 1854 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3160 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3160 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3160 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1784 From RLIN: This is the first publication in the United States in direct opposition to the Christian religion; cf. NUC-pre-56 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2104 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Treaties -- United States -- 18th century |
| dc.title | Reason the only oracle of man: a compendious system of natural religion |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man
A Compendious System Of Natural Religion
by
Col. Ethan Allen
Boston: J.P. Mendum, Cornhill. 1854.
INTRODUCTION to 1854 Edition
Colonel Ethan Allen, the author of Oracles of Reason, was the son of Joseph Allen, a native of Coventry, Connecticut, a farmer in moderate circumstances. He afterwards resided in Litchfield, where Ethan was born in the year 1739. The family consisted of eight children, of whom our author was the eldest. But few incidents connected with his early life are known. We are appraised, however, that notwithstanding his education was very limited, his ambition to prove himself worthy of that attention which superior intellect ever commands, induced him diligently to explore every subject that came under his notice. A stranger to fear, his opinions were ever given without disguise or hesitation; and an enemy to oppression, he sought every opportunity to redress the wrongs of the oppressed.
At the braking out of the Revolutionary War, he ra . . .
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