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January 10, 2009
Col. Ethan Allen On this date in 1738, Col. Ethan Allen was born. U.S. patriot Allen was the author of the first rationalist book published in America, Reason: The Only Oracle of Man (1785). The New England revolutionary soldier critiqued Calvinist theology while promoting a deistic ("Nature's god") philosophy. Allen was colonel of the "Green Mountain Boys," and later a member of the Vermont State Legislature. D. 1789. “[Calvinism is] a doctrine derogatory to the nature of man and the rank and character of being which he holds in the universe. . . ”
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Col. Ethan Allen, Reason: The Only Oracle of Man
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