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ISAAC TAYLOR (1787-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISAAC See also:TAYLOR (1787-1865)  , See also:English author, son of See also:Isaac See also:Taylor (1759-1829), engraver and author, was See also:born at Lavenham, See also:Suffolk, on the 17th of See also:August 1787 . He was trained by his See also:father to be an engraver, but See also:early adopted literature as a profession . From 1824, the See also:year of his See also:marriage, he lived a busy but uneventful See also:life at See also:Stanford See also:Rivers, near Ongar, See also:Essex, where he died on the 28th of See also:June 1865 . His See also:attention was See also:drawn to the study of the fathers of the See also:church through See also:reading the See also:works of Sulpicius See also:Severus, which he had picked up at a bookstall . .He published a See also:History of the Transmission of See also:Ancient Books to See also:Modern Times (1827), a study in biblical See also:criticism, and some other works, but he attracted little See also:notice until, in 1829, he published anonymously a See also:book bearing upon the religious and See also:political problems of the See also:day, entitled The Natural History of See also:Enthusiasm, which speedily ran through eight or nine See also:editions . Fanaticism (1833), Spiritual Despotism (1835), Saturday Evening (1832), and The See also:Physical Theory of Another Life (1836), all commanded a large circulation . In his Ancient See also:Christianity (1839-46), a See also:series of See also:dissertations in reply to the " Tracts for the Times," Taylor maintained that the See also:Christian church of the 4th See also:century should not be regarded as embodying the See also:doctrine and practice of the apostles because it was then already corrupted by contact with See also:pagan superstition . The book met with See also:great opposition, but Taylor did not follow up the controversy . Among his other works may be mentioned See also:biographies of See also:Ignatius See also:Loyola (1849) and See also:John See also:Wesley (1851); a See also:volume entitled The Restoration of Belief (1855); and a course of lectures on The Spirit of See also:Hebrew See also:Poetry (1861) .

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