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[ Voltaire, "Dict.Phil.," the article on Religion. "If there is a hamlet to be governed it must have a religion.">[
3314 ([return])
[ "Le rêve de d'Alembert," by Diderot, passim.]
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[ "If a misanthrope (a hater of mankind) had proposed to himself to injure humanity what could he have invented better than faith in an incomprehensible being, about which men never could come to any agreement, and to which they would attach more importance than to their own existence?" Diderot, "Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Maréchale de....." (And that is just what our Marxist sociologist, psychologists etc have done in inventing a human being bereft of those emotions which in other animals force them to give in to their maternal, paternal and leadership instincts thereby making them happy in the process.. SR.)]
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[ Cf. "Catéchisme Universel," by Saint-Lambert, and the "Loi naturelle ou Catéchisme du citoyen français," by Volney.]
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[ "Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.">[