Reason the only oracle of man, or A compenduous system of natural religion. : Alternately adorned with confutations of a variety of doctrines incompatible to it; deduced from the most exalted ideas which we are able to form of the divine and human characters, and from the universe in general. / By Ethan Allen, Esq.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.

Contributor:

Young, Thomas, 1732-1777.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18322.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atheism.

Deism.

Natural theology.

Rationalism.

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 24-477 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Bennington: state of Vermont; : Printed by Haswell & Russell., M,DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]

Notes:

The first publication in the United States openly directed against the Christian religion. Ethan Allen's authorship is called into question by G.P. Anderson in his "Who wrote 'Ethan Allen's Bible'?" (New England quarterly 10 (1937): 685-696). According to Anderson, Allen revised and published the manuscript of the recently deceased Thomas Young (1732-1777), with whom he may have discussed some of the contents some years earlier. The greater part of the edition was destroyed by fire in the printing office; according to Anderson "Out of fifteen hundred copies printed, it is doubtful if as many as one hundred escaped destruction."

With a half-title.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18322).

Cited in:

Evans 18322

McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 69

OCLC:

55814535