Ethan Allen

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Allen, Ethan

Born Jan. 21, 1738, in Litchfield; died Feb. 11, 1789, in Burlington. American educator. Participant in the North American War of Independence (1775—83), commander of partisan forces in Vermont. Author of the first antireligious pamphlet in America, Reason—the Only Oracle of Man (1784), most copies of which were burned. Allen opposed the biblical myths by supporting rational knowledge of the laws of nature.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Amerikanskie prosvetiteli: Izbr. proizv., vol. 1. Moscow, 1968.

REFERENCES

Gol’dberg, N. M. Svobodomyslie i ateism v SShA (XVIII-XIX vv.). Moscow-Leningrad, 1965. Chapter 3.
Pell, J. Ethan Allen. Boston, 1929.
Holbrook, S. Ethan Allen. Portland, 1958.

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