Herbert & Herbert – two brothers, & two deities

Posted on by David Lloyd Dusenbury

How extraordinary! I am reminded that Lord Herbert of Cherbury (pictured), one of the first English Deists, was the brother of George Herbert, poet of extreme Innerlichkeit.

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