Volume 2 of The light of nature pursued, by Abraham Tucker (vol. 1 seems to have got lost ...) --
Wikipedia describes Abraham Tucker (1705-1774) as "an English country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy." He was the son of a wealthy city merchant, who entered Merton College, Oxford as a gentleman commoner and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. In 1727 he bought himself a country estate and settled down to a life of amateur scholarship. The light of nature pursued was published in two sections, the first four volumes in 1765 and the final three posthumously, having been composed despite the fact that he had lost his eyesight, by virtue of an ingenious apparatus which he devised, and which enabled him to write clearly enough for his daughter to transcribe.
The Oxford DNB reveals that he married the daughter of a neighbour who was "cursitor baron of the exchequer and receiver of the tenths" (now there's a distracting collection of titles ...). It describes The light of nature pursued as "noticeably unsystematic and occasionally rambling in tone" (much like this blog!).
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