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Pagination [12], x, 11-320, complete with the half-title. [ESTC, T67971]. Contemporary full calf, marbled endpapers, early reback, rubbed, corners worn, occasional scattered spotting to text. Annotations by Isaac Watts to over 100 pages. These range from simple notes like "Objn: Ans:" to longer, the more sustained and detailed notes discussed below. The question of whether reason and faith can co-exist was one of the intellectual conundrums of the Enlightenment period, and one that still torments some modern minds. This copy of the first edition of Joseph Butler's major work, annotated by Isaac Watts, illustrates some of the confluences and cross-currents that characterised these deliberations. Watts' handwritten comments demonstrate the level of rigour he applies to his critique of Butler's ideas, especially as they relate to John Locke and the problems of materialism; for, as he notes, "Others have Drawn Mr Lockes opinion to unhappy lengths" (2R1r). WATTS AND BUTLER (AND LOCKE) Isaac Watts was a… Read More