![]() In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many sympathizers with the revolutions of their time (whatever their religious beliefs might be) found appropriate historical models in the biblical concepts of apocalypse and millennium, and this was also true of the poets. ![]() The radical Thomas Holcroft, jubilant over the publication of The Rights of Man, wrote to William Godwin: ‘Hey for the New Jerusalem! The millennium! And eternal beautitude be unto the soul of Thomas Paine’. In A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), the address that drew Edmund Burke's rage in Reflections on the Revolution in France, Dr Richard Price represented the light kindled by the American Revolution as ‘reflected to F rance, and there kindled into a blaze, that lays despotism in ashes, and warms and illuminates E urope!’ Joseph Priestley's Unitarian sermon of 1794, The present state of Europe compared with Ancient Prophecies, viewed the millennial passages in Isaiah as close to historical fulfilment. ![]()
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