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According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

Blount made one special contribution to the deist debate: " by utilizing his wide classical learning, Blount demonstrated how to use pagan writers, and pagan ideas, against Christianity.

... Other Deists were to follow his lead.