Excerpt from Sixteen Saviours or One?: The Gospels Not BrahmanicDuring the quarter of a century following our Revolution, the in¿uence of the Age of Reason was paramount among the radical democracy of New York. Dr. John W. Francis has given'in his. Old New York a fearful picture of the demoralization of the period. Elihu Palmer, a blind man and apostate minister, lectured regularly to a chosen circle, by which he was regarded as infallible, and second only to the great Thomas. In his Principles of Nature he has left behind him a summary of his deistical scheme.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.