John Toland: The Politics of Pantheism

AbelBoyer,The Political State of Great Britain, XXIII, London, 1722, p. 339–345, at p. 342.

GiancarloCarabelli,Tolandiana, Florence, La Nuova Italia, 1975, p. 245.

John Bonnell to Rev. John Strype Dublin, 26th May 1697, «Amongst a Collection of Letters to Rev Strype», BL Add ms 5853/385. I owe this reference to Dr John Hettet.

See, for example, PeterBrowne,A Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity not Mysterious, Dublin, 1697, p. 196: «we can’t guess he designs to be no more than a Head of an ordinary Sect, but to be as famous an impostor as Mahomet.»

JohnToland,A Collection of Several Pieces, Londres, 1726, II, p. 301–304.

Ibid.,, p. 309–313.

Ibid.,, p. xviii.

The best accounts of Toland’s life and thought are: FrancoVenturi,Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment, London, Cambridge University Press, 1971; Robert E.Sullivan,John Toland and the Deist Controversy, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1982; Justin A. I.Champion,The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies (1660–1730), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, addresses some of these themes.

J. Toland,Nazarenus, London, 1718, Part II, p. 34–35.

Ibid.,, p. 16–17 and p. 19ff.

Ibid.,, pref., p. xiv.

J.Toland,op. cit. supra n. 5,, p. 134–136, 138 andpassim.

Id., J. Toland,A Critical History of the Druids, London, 1820, p. 42, 48, 53.

J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 5,A Collection of Several Pieces, Londres, 1726, II, p. 391.

DavidBerman, «Disclaimers in Blount and Toland»,in MichaelHunter, DavidWootton, ed.,Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. 263. See also «Deism, Immortality and the Art of Theological Lying»,in John A. LeoLemay, ed.,Deism, Masonry and the Enlightenment, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 1987, andA History of Atheism in England, London, Routledge, 1988.

Margaret C.Jacob,The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, London, Allen and Unwin, 1981, p. 49.

Ibid.,, p. 87–88, 23;M. C. Jacob,The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689–1720, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1976, p. 248.

See, for example, the devastating review ofThe Radical Enlightenment, op. cit. supra n. 22,, by Graham C.Gibbs in theBritish Journal for the History of Science, 17, 1984.

See A. BlairWorden, ed.,Edmund Ludlow: A Voyce from the Watchtower, «Introduction», London, Royal Historical Society, Camden Society, vol. 21, 1978; CarolineRobbins,The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthsmen, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1959;J. A. I. Champion,op. cit. supra n. 8,The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies (1660–1730), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, chap. 6., «Civil Theology».

J. Toland,Socinianism Truly Stated: Being an Example of Fair Dealing in all Theological Controversies, London, 1705, p. 5–6, 7, 9–10.

Ibid.,J. Toland,Socinianism Truly Stated; Being an Example of Fair Dealing in all Theological Controversies, London, 1705, «Digression», p. 15.

J. Toland,Letters to Serena, London, 1704, p. 161 andpassim letters 4 and 5.

Id., J. Toland,Pantheisticon, London, 1751, p. 5, 15–17.

Ibid.,J. Toland,Pantheisticon, London, 1751, p. 63 and following; second mispagination, p. 64.

Ibid.,J. Toland,Pentheisticon, London, 1751, «To the Reader».

Ibid.,J. Toland,Pentheisticon, London, 1751, p. 57–58, 48, 96, 99, 107.

Ibid.,J. Toland,Pentheisticon, London, 1751, p. 108, 109, 110.

J. Toland,Clidophorous, London, 1720, p. 94–95.

Id.,Two Essays [...] from Oxford, 1695, p. 11.

J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 34,Clidophorous, London, 1720, p. 90–91, 78, 91.

See John G. A.Pocock most recently inThe Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500–1800, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, andJ. A. I. Champion,op. cit. supra n. 8,The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies (1660–1730), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, addresses some of these themes.passim.

J. Toland,Anglia Libera, London, 1701, p. 92.

J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 5,A Collection of Several Pieces, Londres, 1726, II, p. 249–257.

Ibid.,J. Toland,A Collection of Several Pieces Londres, 1726, II. p. 246–247.

Ibid.,J. Toland,A Collection of Several Pieces, Londres, 1726, II, p. 106.

Ibid.,J. Toland,A Collection of Several Pieces, Londres, 1726, II. p. 210.

See MalcolmSchofield,The Stoic Idea of the City, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, especially p. 69–72, 102–103.

J. Toland,The State-Anatomy of Great Britain, London, 1717, p. 27–28.

Id.,,op. cit. supra n. 5, , II. p. 375

Id., J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 44,The State-Anatomy of Great Britain, London, 1717, p. 28.

Id., J. Toland,The Second Part of the State-Anatomy, London, 1717, p. 70–71.

Id., J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 38,Anglia Libera, London, 1701, p. 95–96.

Id., J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 29,Pantheisticon, London, 1751, p. 62.

Ibid.,J. Toland,Pantheisticon, London, 1751, p. 14.

J.Toland,op. cit. supra n. 5,, II, p. 107; for further discussion of this text, see PierreLurbe, «Epsom as Emblem: John Toland’sDescription of Epsom»,Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 9, 1994, p. 129–136.

Ibid.,,op. cit. supra n. 5, , II, p. 106.

J. Toland,op. cit. supra n. 34,Clidophorous, London, 1720, p. 94–95.