Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England - Paperbackby Courtney Weiss Smith (Author) Featuring a moment in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated. This brand of empiricism was committed to particularized scrutiny and epistemological modesty. It was Protestant