"Grand mal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... n'ai point du tout ni l'me ni le style thologique." [57:10] Voltaire, in his "petite drlerie en faveur de la Divinit" (as he called his work) and in his letters, could not find terms harsh enough in which to condemn the Systme de la Nature. He called it "un chaos, un grand mal moral, un ouvrage de tnbres, un pch contre la nature, un systme de la folie et de l'ignorance," and wrote to Delisle de Sales: "Je ne vois pas que rien ait plus avili notre sicle que cette norme sottise." [58:11] Voltaire seemed to grow more bitter about Holbach's book ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing |
