Bensalem, being a description of a Catholick [sic] and free spirit : manuscript, [16--].

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Bensalem, being a description of a Catholick [sic] and free spirit : manuscript, [16--].

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Glanvill's Bensalem is a partially unpublished manuscript on the philosophy of the Cambridge Platonists and is a 'continuation' of Bacon's New Atlantis. This work is in the form of a Utopian romance. The codex also includes theological works and copies of Dr. Tillotson's sermons.

1 v. ; 32 x 21 cm.

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