Collins, Anthony(1676–1729)
Anthony Collins, the English deist, freethinker, theologian, and philosopher, was born at Hounslow, near London, the son of Henry Collins, a well-to-do gentleman. An...
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Anthony Collins, the most philosophically acute of the early eighteenth-century freethinkers, is best known for his defense of freedom of thought or "free-thinking." His approach to philosophical ques...
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