The book The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts was written by author Alexander Adam Seaton Here you can read free online of The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts a good or bad book?
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The belief that atheism connotes a repudiation of all moral obligations, the belief that morality can- not stand by itself, but needs the support of theism, 1 Even if we assume, as we probablj' may, that the nation would ultimately have been converted in any case by less di*astic methods, the principle remains unaffected. What of the interven- ing generations who would have lived and died heathens ? 270 LOCKE ON TOLERATION betrays a deficient appreciation of the bases of morality \ It should be... noticed, however, that in this belief Locke was only reflecting what was the practically universal opinion of his age^: and if atheism was generally regarded by both atheists • and their opponents as a solvent of moral obligations it was quite natural that Locke should include it among his excepted opinions. His list begins with opinions "contrary to human society or to those moral rules which are necessary to the preservation of civil society^, " and atheism is practically a special case of this class.
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