Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1852, Vol. 6 Deism. Herbert of Cherbury, wrote a book to disprove the possibility of revelation, or miracle, and with character istic credulity, tells us that he published it because of a mir acle, which revealed to him the will of God regarding it. Hobbes gave scientific form and utterance to the practical sentiment of the age, in his Leviathan. Blount and Tindal, Collins and Woolston, Morgan and Chubb, as they succes sively appeared, each became interpreter to those classes, whose minds and tastes were in harmony with their own; whilst Hume and Gibbon, Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke, threw around their sceptical mockings, the polish of rank, the brilliancy of wit, and the lustre of genius. These influ ences have been perpetuated and transmitted in various forms, and constitute one great element in the modern school of English infidelity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.