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The stand made by Byrom and Law is no isolated rearguard action; it arises directly out of the prolonged religious controversy of the early 18th century. Some analysis of this controversy is necessary if we are to make sense of Byrom’s subsequent propaganda for Law’s new way of ideas, and his expression of their latent aesthetic consequences. It will be sufficient to describe Byrom’s contacts with the two leading schools in this controversy, on the one hand the deists, on the other the modernist defenders of orthodoxy.
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© 1972 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Hoyles, J. (1972). Deism and Modernism. In: The Edges of Augustanism. International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d’Histoire des Idees, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2819-6_9
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