Thanks for this - very informative. Summarising a primiordial political thinker like this does much to clarify our current situation IMo and you do a great job. A remark re Deism: the God of Deism doesn't intervene in history. He sets the clockwork going at the beginning of time. This means that the universe is open to quantitative, mathematical description and therefore to accurate prediction of phenomena. That this instrumental reason will greatly enhance human flourishing, especially materially, is a premise of the Western Enlightenment and an enabler of the rise of the bourgeoisie, industrial capitalism, mass production and gradually widening political franchise. Deism it could be argued, functions better as pro enlightnement ideology than Humean atheism in as much as it gives a metaphysical foundation for the new, practically powerful, mathematical physics..... and is a little less likely to attract vehement clerical opposition...