ABSTRACT
A late seventeenth to early eighteenth century English writer, Damaris Cudworth was the Cambridge Platonist philosopher Ralph Cudworth’s daughter. She wrote two books, one largely concerning a debate on the nature of the love of God with fellow English philosophers Mary Astell and John Norris and the other, concerning the education of women and Christianity. For if Christianity be a religion from god, and women have souls to be saved as well as men; to know what this religion consists in, and to understand the grounds on which it is to be received, can be no more than necessary knowledge to a woman, as well as to a man. The existence of god being acknowledged a truth so early received by us, and so evident to our reason, that it looks like natural inscription; the authority of that revelation by which god has made known his will to men, is to be firmly established in people’s minds upon its clearest.
