A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. The clues we have used have come from a range of newspapers and magazines – we are indebted to the crossword setters for making the puzzles interesting, challenging and enjoyable to solve! The publications used as sources include: Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Daily Record, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, The Observer, Radio Times, The Sun, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Timesįirst published in Great Britain 2001 Reprinted 2003 This second edition published 2005 A & C Black Publishers Ltd 37 Soho Square, London W1D 3QZ © B. Instead, we have credited the sources below. It would have been difficult and confusing to include the source of each clue in the main layout of the book. The adversaries of the Deists enjoyed the same privilege, and did not hesitate to improve it.īut the Deists of England gained more favor in Holland than their opponents were able to acquire.Crossword Clues and Extracts Throughout this book we have used parts of clues and clues to illustrate a particular style of puzzle and how to solve the clue.
The Deists took particular pains to visit Holland, and were never prouder than when told that their works were read by their friends across the North Sea. Thus it differed widely from the flippancy and frivolity of the Deists of France.Īll the Deists were rendered into their language, and some were honored with many translators.
How this differs from the doctrine of Deists and open opposers of Christianity, it is difficult to conceive, except that it seems to be rather worse. Some say that an Atheist who ponders over the possible existence of a God is better than a Deist who never thinks of the Deity, but I will not venture to decide this point. My uncle Handyside, however, always maintained that his neighbour was the most honourable man in business that he knew, and far from being an atheist or even a deist, he had family prayers, and on the occasion of a death in the family, the funeral service was most impressive.
Newton as professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and who thought there was great deist significance in the identification of gravity.įrench deist, who was a deist partly because he had been to England as a young man, and admired its system of government, was Voltaire. This explains why, for the most part, the deist pamphlets of the time were written either in satirical vein or in an aggressive tone of ridicule. What that work has done is to prove to the consistent deist that no objections can be drawn from reason or experience against natural or revealed religion, and, consequently, that the things objected to are not incredible and may be proved by external evidence. Claiming to be a Deist, it is probable that he was a very liberal one.Įven under a government which, whilst it infringes the very right of thought and speech, boasts of permitting the liberty of the press, a man is pilloried and imprisoned because he is a deist, and no one raises his voice in the indignation of outraged humanity.Įven Rose-whom January knew to be a deist, without belief in Heaven or Hell-wept, rocking back and forth in a corner of the bedroom with her arms folded across her breast.
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