Baron D'Holbach,
Good Sense: or, Natural Ideas Opposed to Supernatural;
being a Translation from a Work Called "Le Bon Sens"
corrected and carefully revised by H. D. Robinson
(Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1856).
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Excerpt scanned and proofread by Aaron Gulyas, Febuary, 1998.
Author's Preface
Apologue
The Science of Theology
On the Idea of God
On the Origin of Religion
The Mysteries of Religion Produce Credulity
How Religion was Established
The Existence of a God cannot be proved
Spirituality of God
What is God-Adoration
The God of the Theologian composed of negations which lead to Atheism
Belief in a God established by Fear, continued and transmitted by Education
Influence of Early Impressions
The Wonders of Nature do not teach the Existence of a God
The Motions of Matter do not imply a Secret Mover, but Self-Motion
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