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Pope's deistical position excluded any reference to revealed religion, to posthumous rewards and penalties, and expressed an optimistic philosophy which ignored the corruption of human nature.

From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

He published many works on politics and religion, the latter all remarkable for their deistical tendencies, and died in March, 1722, at the age of 53.—Ed.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

That his Religion of Humanity took the deistical form was an evolutionary necessity.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel

Shaftesbury and Collins were the most famous deistical writers of that time.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George

It is this strong grasp or the imperfect character of our knowledge of nature and of the grounds for its limitation that makes Butler so formidable an opponent to his deistical contemporaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various