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Something wrong?A salonnière who turned the Enlightenment's polite deism into open war on religion itself, writing so many atheist tracts under so many pseudonyms that Paris whispered about a printing conspiracy that didn't exist.
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Paul Heinrich Dietrich Baron d'Holbach Roslin
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Baron d'Holbach Roslin 1757
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, We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition. (1770)
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
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About this person
Born in the Rhenish Palatinate in 1723, Paul Thiry moved to Paris and built a salon that became a nerve center for Enlightenment thought, funneling German and Protestant ideas into French intellectual life. He contributed to the Encyclopédie and championed scientific inquiry, but his real project was demolition: a systematic, voluminous assault on religion from every angle. In 1770 he published The System of Nature, a materialist manifesto that denied God, soul, and afterlife in language so uncompromising it scandalized even fellow philosophes. The Universal Morality followed in 1776, arguing ethics needed no divine anchor. He died in Paris in 1789, the year the old order he'd spent decades undermining finally collapsed.
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