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See also:CHUBB, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1679-1946) , See also:English deist, the son of a maltster, was See also:born at See also:East Harnham, near See also:Salisbury, on the 29th of See also:September 1679. The See also:death of his See also:father (1688) cut See also:short his See also:education, and in 1694 he was apprenticed to a See also:glove-maker in Salisbury, but subsequently entered the employment of a See also:tallow-See also:chandler. He picked up a See also:fair knowledge of See also:mathematics and See also:geography, but See also:theology was his favourite study. His See also:habit of committing his thoughts to See also:writing gave him a clear and fluent See also:style. He made his first See also:appearance as an author in the Arian controversy. A dispute having arisen about See also:Whiston's See also:argument in favour of the supremacy of the one See also:God and Father, he wrote an See also:essay, The Supremacy of the Father Asserted, which Whiston pronounced worthy of publication, and it was printed in 1715. A number of tracts followed, which were collected in 1730. For several years Chubb lived in the See also:house of See also:Sir See also:Joseph Jekyll, See also:master of the rolls, in what capacity it is not known; there are stories of his having waited at table as a servant out of See also:livery. His love of See also:independence See also:drew him back to Salisbury, where by the kindness of See also:friends he was enabled to devote the See also:rest of his days to his studies. He died on the 8th of See also:February 1746. Chubb is interesting mainly as showing that the See also:rationalism of the intellectual classes had taken considerable hold upon the popular mind. Though he acquired little renown in See also:England he was regarded by See also:Voltaire and others as among the most logical of the deist school (see See also:DEISM). His See also:principal See also:works are A Discourse Concerning See also:Reason (1731), The True See also:Gospel of Jesus See also:Christ (1739), and See also:Posthumous Works, 2 vols.
End of Article: CHUBB, THOMAS (1679-1946)
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