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See also:COLLINS, See also:ANTHONY (1676-1729) , See also:English deist, was See also:born at Heston, near See also:Hounslow in See also:Middlesex, on the 21st of See also:June 1676. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a student at the See also:Middle See also:Temple. The most interesting See also:episode of his See also:life was his intimacy with See also:Locke, who in his letters speaks of him with See also:affection and admiration. In 1715 he settled in See also:Essex, where he held the offices of See also:justice of the See also:peace and See also:deputy-See also:lieutenant, which he had before held in Middlesex.
He died at his See also:house in Harley See also:Street, See also:London, on the 13th of See also:December 1729.
His writings are important as gathering together the results of previous English Freethinkers. The imperturbable See also:courtesy of his See also:style is in striking contrast to the violence of his opponents; and it must be remembered that, in spite of his unorthodoxy, he was not an atheist or even an agnostic. In his own words, "See also:Ignorance is the See also:foundation of See also:atheism, and freethinking the cure of it " (Discourse of Freethinking, 105):
His first See also:work of See also:note was his See also:Essay concerning the Use of See also:Reason in Propositions the See also:Evidence whereof depends on Human Testimony (1707), in which he rejected the distinction between above reason and contrary to reason, and demanded that See also:revelation should conform to See also:man's natural ideas of See also:God. Like all his See also:works, it was published anonymously, although the identity of the author was never See also:long concealed. Six years later appeared his See also:chief work, A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a See also:Sect called Freethinkers (x713). Notwithstanding the See also:ambiguity of its See also:title, and the fact that it attacks the priests of all churches without moderation, it contends for the most See also:part, at least explicitly, for no more than must be admitted by every See also:Protestant. Freethinking is a right which cannot and must not be limited, for it is the only means of attaining to a knowledge of truth, it essentially contributes to the well-being of society, and it is not only permitted but enjoined by the See also:Bible. In fact the first introduction of See also:Christianity and the success of all missionary enterprise involve freethinking (in its etymological sense) on the part of those converted. In See also:England this essay, which was regarded and treated as a plea for See also:deism, made a See also:great sensation, calling forth several replies, among others from See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Whiston, See also:Bishop See also:Hare, Bishop See also:Hoadly, and See also:Richard See also:Bentley, who, under the See also:signature of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, roughly handles certain arguments carelessly expressed by Collins, but triumphs chiefly by an attack on trivial points of scholarship, his own pamphlet being by no means faultless in this very respect. See also:Swift also, being satirically referred to in the See also:book, made it the subject of a See also:caricature.
In 1724 Collins published his Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the See also:Christian See also:Religion, with An See also:Apology for See also:Free Debate and See also:Liberty of See also:Writing prefixed. Ostensibly it is written in opposition to Whiston's See also:attempt to show that the books of the Old Testament did originally contain prophecies of events in the New Testament See also:story, but that these had been eliminated or corrupted by the See also:Jews, and to prove that the fulfilment of prophecy by the events of See also:Christ's life is all " secondary, See also:secret, allegorical, and mystical," since the See also:original and literal reference is always to some other fact. Since, further, according to him the fulfilment of prophecy is the only valid See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of Christianity, he thus secretly aims a See also:blow at Christianity as a revelation. The canonicity of the New Testament he ventures openly to deny, on the ground that the See also:canon could be fixed only by men who were inspired. No less than See also:thirty-five answers were directed against this book, the most noteworthy of which were those of Bishop See also:Edward See also:Chandler, See also:Arthur Sykes and See also:Samuel See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke. To these, but with See also:special reference to the work of Chandler, which maintained that a , number of prophecies were literally fulfilled in Christ, Collins replied by his See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered (1727). An appendix contends against Whiston that the book of See also:Daniel was forged in the time of See also:Antiochus Epiphanes (see DErsM).
In See also:philosophy, Collins takes a foremost See also:place as a defender of Necessitarianism. His brief Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty (1715) has not been excelled, at all events in its See also:main outlines, as a statement of the determinist standpoint. One of his arguments, however, calls for special See also:criticism his assertion that it is self-evident that nothing that has a beginning can be without a cause is an unwarranted See also:assumption of the very point at issue. He was attacked in an elaborate See also:treatise by Samuel Clarke, in whose See also:system the freedom of the will is made essential to religion and morality. During Clarke's lifetime, fearing perhaps to be branded as an enemy of religion and morality, Collins made no reply, but in 1729 he published an See also:answer, entitled Liberty and See also:Necessity.
Besides these works he wrote A See also:Letter to Mr See also:Dodwell, arguing that it is conceivable that the soul maybe material, and, secondly, that if the soul be immaterial it does not follow, as Clarke had contended, that it is immortal; Vindication of the Divine Attributes (1710); Priestcraft in Perfection (1709), in which he asserts that the clause "the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church . . . Faith" in the twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles was inserted by See also:fraud.
See See also:Kippis, Biographia Britannica; G. See also:Lechler, Geschichte See also:des englischen Deismus (1841); J. See also:Hunt, Religious Thought in England, ii. (1871); See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, English Thought in the 18th See also:Century, i. (1881); A. W. Benn, Hist. of English See also:Rationalism in the 19th Century (London, 1906), vol. i. ch. iii. ; J. M. See also:Robertson, See also:Short See also:History of Freethought (London, 1906) ; and DEISM.
End of Article: COLLINS, ANTHONY (1676-1729)
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