Front Page Titles (by Subject) William Wollaston

William Wollaston

1660 - 1724

About the Author

William Wollaston (1660-1724) was an English philosopher whose most popular work was The Religion of Nature Delineated (1722) which went through many editions. In Section VI he has a defence of natural rights to property.

In The Library:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 (1897)

Quotations:

• Wollaston on crimes against person or property as contradictions of fundamental truths (1722) (15 February, 2010)