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- Teller's writings present rationalism in its course of development from biblical supernaturalism to the borders of deistical naturalism.
- "A View of the Principal Deistical Writers " was first published in 1754 and subsequently expanded twice.
- They put into my hands the works of Voltaire, [ David ] Hume, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, and other deistical writers ."
- His influence on the course of the deistical controversy began with his book, " The Moderator between an Infidel and an Apostate " ( 1725, 3rd ed . 1729 ).
- He engaged in the deistical controversy with " Scripture Vindicated " ( Cambridge, 1730 2, 3 pts . ), a reply to Matthew Tindal's " Christianity as Old as the Creation ".
- A major contributor was Elihu Palmer ( 1764 1806 ), who wrote the " Bible " of American deism in his " Principles of Nature " ( 1801 ) and attempted to organize deism by forming the " Deistical Society of New York " and other deistic societies from Maine to Georgia.
- He is remembered as the author of " A view of the principal deistical writers that have appeared in England in the last and present century : with observations upon them, and some account of the answers that have been published against them : in several letters to a friend . " ( 1754 1755 ) 2 vols . ( London : Printed for B . Dod ) which went through many editions well into the 19th century.