In 1780 Joseph Priestley published letters meant to win over a philosophical unbeliever, and two years later this reply appeared, arguing that neither nature nor morality furnishes proof of a benevolent Deity. A prefatory address signed William Hammon openly avows atheism, making the pamphlet one of the first declared atheist works printed in Britain; it is usually attributed to the Liverpool surgeon Matthew Turner.
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