Note 1 — Chapter VI
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For the sake of simplicity I use “deist” in this sense throughout, though “theist” is now the usual term.
[2] Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise, which deals with the interpretation of Scripture, was translated into English in 1689.
[3] See Benn, Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century, vol. i, p. 138 seq., for a good exposure of the fallacies and sophistries of Butler.