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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.
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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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