The Political History of the DevilAMS Press, 2003 - 605 Seiten First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world. |
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... reason and nature , Defoe postulates , “ to believe the existence of a GOD is a debt to nature , and to believe the existence of the Devil is a like debt to reason ; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes , and the ...
... reason and nature , Defoe postulates , “ to believe the existence of a GOD is a debt to nature , and to believe the existence of the Devil is a like debt to reason ; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes , and the ...
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... reason , and in some places the only reason they give for worshiping him is , that he may do them no hurt ; having no notions at all of his having any power , much less any inclination to do them any good ; so that indeed they make a ...
... reason , and in some places the only reason they give for worshiping him is , that he may do them no hurt ; having no notions at all of his having any power , much less any inclination to do them any good ; so that indeed they make a ...
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... Reason to have run any Risque of his Life for being made a Cuckold . But thus has Satan abus'd the Reason of Man , and if a Man does me the greatest Injury in the World , I must do my self Justice upon him , by venturing my Life upon an ...
... Reason to have run any Risque of his Life for being made a Cuckold . But thus has Satan abus'd the Reason of Man , and if a Man does me the greatest Injury in the World , I must do my self Justice upon him , by venturing my Life upon an ...
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List of Illustrations | xi |
Headnote | xix |
Notes to Headnote | lxxv |
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