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#IrishPhilosophy and the #SouthSeaBubble
#JohnToland lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron #RobertMolesworth's name as a guarantor to invest.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led #RobertMolesworth to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.”
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#JohnToland became the Republican Mythmaker via contacts he made in Dublin before he left in a hurry.
His arrival had triggered much writing refuting his #ChristianityNotMysterious (and a series of letters between #Locke and #WilliamMolyneux, which form the basis for the post below).
This controversary was the trigger for the #IrishEnlightenment.
Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment http://irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/
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The previous picture (from wiki) is clearly supposed to be #JohnToland but there's some doubt as to whether it is really him. He was also depicted in this satire of the divisions within the Established Church associated with "Milton's works". He edited these as part of a Whig programme to rehabilitate republican political philosophy for a constitutional monarchy. https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/05/24/toland-myth-maker/
Image with Toland circled: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3419
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Toland believed matter was "the source of life itself" but argued against Bayle's panpsychism (that the property of thinking is inherent in matter), though not successfully.
Materialism and panpsychism (Bayle and Toland edition)
https://wp.me/p25oy3-N