The Philosophy of a Future State

New York: Published by R. Schoyer, 1831. 276pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Full brown sheep with gilt bands and a gilt black label on the backstrip. Very good. Gentle wear to boards with a (contemporary) name in ink on the front free endsheet. Sporadic gentle foxing. The best-known and perhaps most striking of the Mormon parallel works by Thomas Dick. The year following Joseph Smith's acquisition of the mummies and papyrus used in the Book of Abraham, Oliver Cowdery quoted heavily from this book in the Mormon periodical, Messenger and Advocate 3:3 (December 1836), pp. 423-25. Joseph owned a copy of "Dicks Philosophy" which he donated to the Nauvoo Library in 1844. Joseph Smith's ideas of Kolob certainly followed precedents of concepts which had been popularized earlier throughout Britain and America by Thomas Dick. Mormon Parallels 115. (Inventory #: 9905)