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| First page of Blount's 1683 Miracles: No Violations of the Laws of Nature, wherein he attempt say that authors of the Bible did not aim to teach people about physical science and natural philosophy, but only to "excite pious affections, so to induce worship and veneration" of god. [2] |
“After death no thing is, and no thing death [dies?].”— Seneca (50AD), favorite Blount quote
“Jacob Reimann, in his Universal History of Atheism (1725), included as atheists: Thomas Hobbes, John Toland, Charles Blount, and Anthony Collins.”— Jennifer Hecht (2003), Doubt: a History [3]
“There are two forts of judges unto whom all writers are obnoxious, viz. the ignorant, and the judicious. As for the ignorant, they are such men as I before was speaking of, then whose approbation I dread nothing more: simili simile gaudet [‘like rejoices in like’] (Ѻ), is a maxim that holds true as well in all other things, as physics; and there is nothing would make me have so ill an opinion of myself, as to hear one of them commend me. But the other judge, viz. the man of learning and judgment, is the he I fear, and before him only will I arraign myself.”— Charles Blount (1679), Anima Mundi (to the readers) [1]
