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		<title>Herbert</title>
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 Herbert of Cherbury  is generally considered the &#8220;father of English deism&#8221;, and his book De Veritate (On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False) (1624) the first major statement of deism.
Like his contemporary Descartes, Herbert searched for the foundations of knowledge. In fact, the first two thirds of De Veritate are devoted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deist Mission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most deists saw the religions of their day as corruptions of an original, pure religion that was simple and rational. They felt that this original pure religion had become corrupted by &#8220;priests&#8221; who had manipulated it for personal gain and for the class interests of the priesthood in general.
According to this world view, over time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason</title>
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&#8220;Reason&#8221; was the ultimate court of appeal for deists. Tindal presents a Lockean definition of reason, self-evident truth, and the light of nature:


By the rational faculties, then, we mean the natural ability a man has to apprehend, judge, and infer: The immediate objects of which faculties are not the things themselves, but the ideas the mind conceives of them&#8230;. Knowledge [is]&#8230; the perception of the agreement or disagreement [...]]]></description>
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