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Joseph Priestley
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- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a nonconformist English minister, scientist, and political theorist, wrote prolifically and was a notable figure of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. In the second half of the eighteenth century, a group of British scholars and writers began to challenge the governmental and religious settlement that had arisen out of England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1689. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Priestley, Joseph]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Joseph_Priestley
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