Human Nature and Other Sermons

Human Nature, by Joseph Butler
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Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
HUMAN NATURE
AND OTHER SERMONS
BY
JOSEPH BUTLER BISHOP OF DURHAM. CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED: , LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE . 1887
INTRODUCTION.
Joseph Butler was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of a linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a Presbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar School Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the Presbyterian ministry in a training academy at Gloucester, which was afterwards removed to Tewkesbury. There he had a friend and comrade, Secker, who afterwards became Archbishop of Canterbury. Butler and Secker inquired actively, and there was foreshadowing of his future in the fact that in 1713, at the age of twenty-one, Butler was engaged in anonymous discussion with Samuel Clarke upon his ...