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 TOLAND. 599 he continued till 1710, and had the good fortune to become acquainted with Prince Eugene, who bestowed on him several marks of his generosity. On his return to England, he was enabled, by the liberality of Mr. Harley, to keep a country house at Epsom ; but losing the favour of that minister, he afterwards wrote pamphlets against him. His skill in publications of this nature, and his attention to times and seasons, were such, that a pamphlet which he published in 1714, ran through ten editions in a quarter of a year. In 1718, he appears to have quitted politics altogether, and to have given himself up to the promulgation of his religious theories. In this year he published “Nazarenus,” and “The Destiny of Rome;” and in 1720, his “Pantheisticon” appeared, in which his doctrines and his creed are thus explicitly set forth :—“In mundo omnia sunt unum, ununique est omne in omnibus. Quod omne in omnibus, Deus est; asternus ac immensus, neque genitus, neque interiturus. In eo vivimus, movemus, et existimus. Abeo matum est unumquidque, in eumque denuo reverturum; omnium ipse principium et finis.” This is declared by a modern author to be Pantheism, that is atheism, or there is no such thing. It may be so; for we confess ourselves perfectly incompetent to decide upon the merits, as we understand not the meaning, of this sublime effusion; but we should rather incline to class it with the ridiculous jargon of alchemy, which was under stood neither by the professor nor the learner, and calcu lated solely to create an impression of the vastness of intellect of the one, on the disordered faculties of the other. But few copies of this work were printed, and those were privately distributed by the author, in the expectation of receiving presents for them. In the pre face he subscribes himself Janus Junius Eoganesius; which, though really his christian name and the place of his birth, served for a good cover to the author, as no person in England was acquainted with these particulars. In the same year also appeared “Tetradymus.” In 1721, Dr. Hare, Dean of Worcester, published