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Dutch translation of one of Richard Price's influential orations

PRICE, Richard
Redevoering over de waarschynlykheid van een toekoomend tydperk van verbeteringe, in den staat van het Menschdom; nevens de middelen en de verplichting om dezelve te bevorderen. Uit het Engelsch.




Amnsterdam, Jacob van der Birgh & Z.., 1788. 8vo. Without binding. VIII, 56 pp.

First and only edition of a translation into Dutch of Richard Price's The Evidence for a future period of improvement in the state of Mankind, with the means and duty of promoting it, represented in a discourse delivered on Wednesday the 25th of April, 1787, at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry, London, to the Supporters of a New Academical Institution among Protestant Dissenters, and first printed in London in 1787.

Richard Price (1723-1791) was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters , and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He also was a mathematician, an expert on insurance, and an advisor to Shelburne and Pitt on financial reform. Price was also one of the leaders of the Dissenting campaigns to extend he rights of freedom of worship and of civic equality. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the Constitution of the United States . He spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, where possibly the congregant he most influenced was early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who extended his ideas on the egalitarianism inherent in the spirit of the French Revolution  to encompass women's rights as well. In addition to his work as a moral and political philosopher, he also wrote on issues of statistics and finance, and was inducted into the Royal Society for these contributions.

Uncut and unbound copy.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Enlightenment 

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