A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 by J. M. Robertson

skepticism. Fanaticism at court 143 Chap. XVI--British Freethought in the Eighteenth Century § 1. Toland. Blasphemy Law. Strifes among believers. Cudworth. Bishops Browne and Berkeley. Heresy in the Church. The Schools of Newton, Leibnitz, and Clarke. Hutchinson. Halley. Provincial deism. Saunderson. Simson. Literary orthodoxy. Addison. Steele. Berkeley. Swift. New deism. Shaftesbury. Trenchard. Unitarianism. Asgill. Coward. Dodwell. Whiston 147 § 2. Anthony Collins. Bentley's attack. Mandeville. Woolston. Middleton. Deism at Oxford. Tindal. Middleton and Waterland 154 § 3. Unitarianism: its spread among Presbyterians. Chubb. Hall. Elwall 159 § 4. Berkeley's polemic. Lady Mary Montagu. Pope. Deism and Atheism. Coward. Strutt 162 § 5. Parvish. Influence of Spinoza 167 § 6. William Pitt. Morgan. Annet. Dodwell the Younger 169 § 7. The work achieved by deism. The social situation. Recent disparagements and German testimony 170 § 8. Arrest of English science. Hale. Burnet. Whiston. Woodward. Effects of Imperialism. Contrast with France. The mathematicians 176 § 9. Supposed "decay" of deism. Butler. William Law. Hume 179 § 10. Freethought in Scotland. Execution of Thomas Aikenhead. Confiscation of innovating books. Legislation against deism. Anstruther's and Halyburton's polemic. Strife over creeds. John Johnstone. William Dudgeon. Hutcheson. Leechman. Forbes. Miller. Kames. Smith. Ferguson. Church riots 181 § 11. Freethought in Ireland. Lord Molesworth. Archbishop Synge. Bishop Clayton 188 § 12. Situation in England in 1750. Richardson's lament. Middleton. Deism among the clergy. Sykes. The deistic evolution 190 § 13. Materialism. La Mettrie. Shifting of the social centre: socio-political forces. Gray's avowal. Hume's estimate. Goldsmith's. The later deism. Bolingbroke 194 § 14. Diderot's diagnosis. Influence of Voltaire. Chatterton. Low state of popular culture. Prosecutions of poor freethinkers. Jacob Ilive. Peter Annet. Later deistic literature. Unitarianism. Evanson. Tomkyns. Watts. Lardner. Priestley. Toulmin. D. Williams 198 § 15. Gibbon. Spread of unbelief. The creed of the younger Pitt. Fox. Geology. Hutton. Cowper's and Paley's complaints. Erasmus Darwin. Mary Wollstonecraft 203 § 16. Burns and Scotland 208 § 17. Panic and reaction after the French Revolution. New aristocratic orthodoxy. Thomas Paine. New democratic freethought 209 Chap. XVII--French Freethought in the Eighteenth Century