A Discourse of Free-Thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-Thinkers

Anthony Collins

[publisher not identified], London, 1713

[Free Thinking: Rationalism] Bound in attractive modern marbled boards.  vi, 3-178 pages ; (8vo).  Institutional stamp on second page. 

Collins' was an influential writer in the British Enlightenment who wrote about the autonomy of reason and the importance of toleration.  "Ignorance is the foundation of Atheism and Free-Thinking the Cure of it."  Collins work built on the intellectual foundations of Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, and Bayle.  His work was praised by Voltaire.