A contrast between the effects of religion, and the effects of atheism. An oration, delivered at commencement, Harvard University, Cambridge, July 17th, 1799

by Leonard Woods

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Boston: printed by John Russell, 1799. 8vo, pp. 20; vignette title page; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, text toned and light stains, top margin of title page chaffed; all else very good. Old ownership signature of E. L. Edmond, 1829 on title page. As a Harvard undergraduate, Woods had been influenced by the rationalist ideas of Joseph Priestley; the atheism targeted here is that of the French philosophes. Woods was instrumental in mediating the rifts

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