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Opuscule   Listen
noun
Opuscule, Opuscle  n.  A small or petty work.






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"Opuscule" Quotes from Famous Books



... the absolute quality of Catholic propositions about religion, knowledge, and government.[73] Yet neither he nor any one else on his side has ever effectively shaken the solid argument which Diderot fancifully illustrated in the following passage from his reply to Voltaire's letter of thanks for the opuscule: "This marvellous order and these wondrous adaptations, what am I to think of them? That they are metaphysical entities only existing in your own mind. You cover a vast piece of ground with a mass of ruins falling hither or thither at hazard; amid these the worm and the ant ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley



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