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"A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord ***** [collected in Characteristics]"
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Date: 1708, 1714
"They are certainly as ill Physicians in the Body-Politick, who wou'd needs be tampering with these mental Eruptions; and under the specious pretence of healing this Itch of Superstition, and saving Souls from the Contagion of Enthusiasm, shou'd set all Nature in an uproar, and turn a few innocen...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)