id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6626 William Wollaston - Wikipedia .html text/html 2618 418 57 William Wollaston (/ˈwʊləstən/; 26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724) was a school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, theologian, and a major Enlightenment era English philosopher. He led a cloistered life, but in terms of eighteenth-century philosophy and the concept of natural religion, he is ranked with British Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Wollaston's work contributed to the development of two important intellectual schools: British Deism, and "the pursuit of happiness" moral philosophy of American Practical Idealism, a phrase which appears in the United States Declaration of Independence. Wollaston's idea of a Natural religion without revelation briefly inspired and revived the movement known as Deism in England. John Clarke (1750): A Preface containing A General Account of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Author, from the 1750 edition of The Religion of Nature Delineated. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6626.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6626.txt