Clarke, Dr. Samuel, an English divine, scholar and disciple of Newton, born at Norwich; author, as Boyle lecturer, of a famous “Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God,” as also independently of “The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion”; as a theologian he inclined to Arianism, and his doctrine of morality was that it was congruity with the “eternal fitness of things” (1675-1729).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Clarke, Charles Cowden * Clarke, Edward Daniel