‘A complete history of priestcraft’
The Druids and the origins of ancient virtue
in Republican learning
Chapter DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137630.00017
Online Publication Date:
30 Jul 2018
Open Access (free)

This chapter explores in detail John Toland's intellectual transactions with Lord Robert Molesworth, one of the commonwealth politicians in his circle, in order to allow a more reflective appreciation of the function of his learning and ideas. The first result of Toland's relationship with Molesworth was the analysis of the Druidical past as a Complete History of Priestcraft. The chapter also discusses Toland's idea, contained in his Clidophorus, that the tyranny of priestcraft meant that the truth could rarely be spoken in public.

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Republican learning

John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696–1722

eISBN:
9781526137630
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Cover Republican learning
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Subjects:
History
Keywords:
John Toland; republican political thought; irreligious belief; Christian doctrine; ecclesiastical establishment; divine revelation; Sophia of Hanover; court philosopher; Hanoverian succession; Glorious Revolution
Page Count:
(273 total)
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

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