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George Bethune English was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of Thomas English, an immigrant from England, who married Penelope Bethune of Boston.
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George Bethune English (1787-1828) was a critic of traditional Christianity and an adventurer. He graduated from Harvard College in 1807. During his theology studies, he began to doubt the truth of the Christian religion, which he critiqued in a book entitled The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing the New Testament with the Old (1813). Edward Everett published a rejoinder to it, to which English responded with his book Five Pebbles from the Brook (1824).
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George Bethune English was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of Thomas English, an immigrant from England, who married Penelope Bethune of Boston.
He graduated from Harvard in 1807.
After studying law for a few months, he vainly applied for a commission in the army.
Turning to theology, he acquired an M. A. from the Harvard Divinity School and was licensed to preach.
Study of Hebrew, combined perhaps with failure as a minister, convinced him that the New Testament was valueless.
This brochure created a furore and was condemned by eminent churchmen, notably W. E. Channing and Edward Everett.
The latter wrote A Defense of Christianity against the Work of B. English (1814) which convicts English of wholesale plagiarism.
From inhospitable New England he moved to the West, where he was at one time editor of a country newspaper and at another, member of the New Harmony Community.
Through the influence of John Quincy Adams, he was appointed lieutenant of marines and went on a cruise to the Mediterranean.
Resigning his commission at Alexandria, he embraced Mohammedanism and became an officer in the Egyptian army.
After attempting unsuccessfully to revive the use of scythe-bearing chariots, he went in 1820 and 1821 with Ismail, son of Mchemet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, on an expedition to the eastern Sudan.
During a campaign which almost reached Abyssinia, he utilized camels for artillery transport.
Expected rewards were not forthcoming, so he left the Egyptian service and returned home.
Adams now appointed him secret agent of the United States to sound the Turkish government regarding a commercial treaty and the opening of the Black Sea to American trade.
Making his way to Constantinople disguised as a Mohammedan and relying for security on his knowledge of Oriental languages and customs, he spent the winter of 1823-24 conferring secretly with Husrev, the wily Capudan Pasha or Grand Admiral, who had long favored American interests.
Persuaded to advise a meeting between this Pasha and the commander of the American Mediterranean Squadron, and suspected of being a Greek spy, he departed hurriedly for Washington.
His plan adopted, he went to the Levant again in 1825 as interpreter for Commodore John Rodgers. The interview took place in 1826 on one of the Hlgean Islands, but was fruitful only of presents to the Turk.
Distrusted by Rodgers and the United States consul at Smyrna, he returned to America in 1827.
Chronically penniless, he importuned Adams for further employment and was about to receive it, when the discovery of obscure but damning facts precluded further aid to one who had been befriended repeatedly, “notwithstanding his eccentricities, approaching to insanity. ”
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member of the New Harmony Community
“a smart, active, handsome, young man, ” known already for his linguistic ability.