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[ The "Oedipe," by Voltaire, belongs to the year 1718, and his "Lettres sur les Anglais," to the year 1728. The "Lettres Persanes," by Montesquieu, published in 1721, contain the germs of all the leading ideas of the century.]
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[ "Raison" (cult of). Cult proposed by the Hébertists and aimed at replacing Christianity under the French Revolution. The Cult of Reason was celebrated in the church of Notre Dame de Paris on the 10th of November 1793. The cult disappeared with the Hébertists (March 1794) and Robespierre replaced it with the cult of the Superior Being. (SR.)]
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[ Joseph de Maistre, Oeuvres inédites," pp. 8, 11.]
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[ Diderot's letters on the Blind and on the Deaf and Dumb are addressed in whole or in part to women.]
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[ "Correspondence of Gouverneur Morris," (in English), II, 89. (Letter of January 24, 1790)]