DEIR-EL-KAMAR, I kil'inr.r, or K km kit \r„ monastery of the moot, ). A 'own f stria and once the seat of Emir Resliir. Ilt. chief sheik of the 1)ru•es I Nlap: Palestine. 11 1 It i. piet•ire-gnely situated in at gl. n of Mount Lett: Loll. it :111 altitude of over 'sit() feet, aim it 13 it from Beirut. The chief in dustry is the production of silk 'tut).
about ,00n. chiefly :118 '0110, -.. nu-el ]xaiut•r has been the centre of .millets between the Alaronit., and the 1H•us, DEISM r from 1.411.. gthl or Tut ts‘t • Fr. it , god 1. t. rot a hiel. pr perly means tali. f in a god, or opt,. s•d to atheism. In comm. n Ian guage_ hoac‘er, deb-to is oppos..1 to heti. I ill a T. vet it ion. •1I a del t W lot and pro% idera4. of I :od, hat ground- his belief on reason 81.1 the e‘ lien.. afforded IT the constitution of thing•, (tail ts the mony of a loll. 1 he n is often Its...1 vaguely by Way f reproa.h. •imil.irly to 'infidel.' The term deists, or freethinker:, is sometimes 11•441 todt•-igi a or ales ui writers who appeared in Eneland in the sr\ entreuth and eighteenth et-Muth.", and alio aimed at estab
lishing what they called natural ieligion, upon the basis of reason and free inquiry, and lion bringing all positive or I.. cafe.] religion to the test of this. They are looked upon as the pre cursors of Ilt(rman rationalism in theology, 'I he leading names in this school are: Lord Herbert of tin rbury died lots. ; Teland, a hose Chritdiautty !tot .11 ysli riaas I LA ndon, Itt91.) gage exact expression to the tendency of the deists: the third Earl of shaft•s1al•y: Anthony Collins (died the friend of Locke: Thomas Matthew Tindal, the author of ianit y us oh1 u.. floe Cr1 a I ill a. or the (ioNor a al tun of the I:, 'talon of .Vitt tin Lon dn, 7:101 Viscount Bolingbroke, Consult : s. Farrar. Ilisto•y of In Thought (London, I Leslie lit.-alory of English T7aou9h1 111 11 igh t 71 1 h i Iffy (I .01111011 , 1 Sf, I