The Friends of Voltaire
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Above it, d'Holbach heard, close, distinct, and scathing, the bitter condemnations of his own guests and friends. He went on dining to that accompaniment.
From Terney, Voltaire pronounced the work ' a philippic against God ' and ' a sin against nature ; ' swore it had wrought irreparable harm to philosophy ; passionately refuted it in his article on ' God ' in the Philosophical Dictionary ; while it wrung from him, in a letter to the Due de Eichelieu, that famous confession : ' / think it very ...good to sustain the doctrine of the existence of a punishing and rewarding God : society has need of this opinion.' Galiani declared ' this Mirabaud ' to be ' the Abbe Terrai of metaphysics : he causes the bankruptcy of knowledge, of happiness, and of the human mind.' La Harpe called it 'this infamous book.' Young Goethe said he fled from it as from a spectre. It caused Frederick the Great to break with the philosophic party.
Grimm, indeed — but this was after d'Holbach's death, when it was no longer dangerous to hold such opinions — praised the purity of its author's intentions, and the passages of ' imposing elo- D'HOLBACH: THE HOST 145 quence ' the book contained — though these, he added, Grimm-hke, ' were by Diderot.' Who reads ' The System of Nature ' now ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Above it, d'Holbach heard, close, distinct, and scathing, the bitter condemnations of his own guests and friends. He went on dining to that accompaniment.
From Terney, Voltaire pronounced the work ' a philippic against God ' and ' a sin against nature ; ' swore it had wrought irreparable harm to philosophy ; passionately refuted it in his article on ' God ' in the Philosophical Dictionary ; while it wrung from him, in a letter to the Due de Eichelieu, that famous confession : ' / think it very ...good to sustain the doctrine of the existence of a punishing and rewarding God : society has need of this opinion.' Galiani declared ' this Mirabaud ' to be ' the Abbe Terrai of metaphysics : he causes the bankruptcy of knowledge, of happiness, and of the human mind.' La Harpe called it 'this infamous book.' Young Goethe said he fled from it as from a spectre. It caused Frederick the Great to break with the philosophic party.
Grimm, indeed — but this was after d'Holbach's death, when it was no longer dangerous to hold such opinions — praised the purity of its author's intentions, and the passages of ' imposing elo- D'HOLBACH: THE HOST 145 quence ' the book contained — though these, he added, Grimm-hke, ' were by Diderot.' Who reads ' The System of Nature ' now ?
What to read after The Friends of Voltaire?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Evelyn Beatrice Hall to read onlineMoreLess
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