Superstition in
Superstition in all ages
作者：Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789; Voltaire, 1694-1778 [Commentator]; Knoop, Anna, -1889 [Translator]; Meslier, Jean, 1664-1729 [Unknown role]
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- SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES
- By Jean Meslier
- Translated from the French original by Miss Anna Knoop
- LIFE OF JEAN MESLIER BY VOLTAIRE.
- DECREE
- PRESIDENT AND SECRETARIES.
- MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF DECREES AND PROCESS-VERBAL.
- PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.
- COMMON SENSE.
- I.--APOLOGUE.
- II.--WHAT IS THEOLOGY?
- III.
- IV.--MAN BORN NEITHER RELIGIOUS NOR DEISTICAL.
- VI.--RELIGION IS FOUNDED UPON CREDULITY.
- VII.--EVERY RELIGION IS AN ABSURDITY.
- VIII.--THE NOTION OF GOD IS IMPOSSIBLE.
- IX.--ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION.
- X.--ORIGIN OF ALL RELIGION.
- XII.--RELIGION ENTICES IGNORANCE BY THE AID OF THE MARVELOUS.
- XIII.--CONTINUATION.
- XV.--ALL RELIGION WAS BORN OF THE DESIRE TO DOMINATE.
- XVI.--THAT WHICH SERVES AS A BASIS FOR ALL RELIGION IS VERY UNCERTAIN.
- XVII.--IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CONVINCED OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
- XVIII.--CONTINUATION.
- XIX.--THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS NOT PROVED.
- XXI.--SPIRITUALITY IS A CHIMERA.
- XXII.--ALL WHICH EXISTS SPRINGS FROM THE BOSOM OF MATTER.
- XXIII.--WHAT IS THE METAPHYSICAL GOD OF MODERN THEOLOGY?
- XXIV.--IT WOULD BE MORE RATIONAL TO WORSHIP THE SUN THAN A SPIRITUAL GOD.
- XXV.--A SPIRITUAL GOD IS INCAPABLE OF WILLING AND OF ACTING.
- XXVI.--WHAT IS GOD?
- XXVII.--REMARKABLE CONTRADICTIONS OF THEOLOGY.
- XXVIII.--TO ADORE GOD IS TO ADORE A FICTION.
- XXXII.--IT IS A PREJUDICE WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED FROM FATHER TO CHILDREN.
- XXXIII.--ORIGIN OF PREJUDICES.
- XXXIV.--HOW THEY TAKE ROOT AND SPREAD.
- XXXVI.--THE WONDERS OF NATURE DO NOT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
- XXXVII.--THE WONDERS OF NATURE EXPLAIN THEMSELVES BY NATURAL CAUSES.
- XXXVIII--CONTINUATION.
- XXXIX.--THE WORLD HAS NOT BEEN CREATED, AND MATTER MOVES BY ITSELF.
- XL.--CONTINUATION.
- XLII.--THE EXISTENCE OF MAN DOES NOT PROVE THAT OF GOD.
- XLIII.--HOWEVER, NEITHER MAN NOR THE UNIVERSE IS THE EFFECT OF CHANCE.
- XLV.--CONTINUATION.
- XLVIII.--CONTINUATION.
- L.--GOD IS NOT MADE FOR MAN, NOR MAN FOR GOD.
- LII.--WHAT IS CALLED PROVIDENCE IS BUT A WORD VOID OF SENSE.
- LIV.--NO! THE WORLD IS NOT GOVERNED BY AN INTELLIGENT BEING.
- LV.--GOD CAN NOT BE CALLED IMMUTABLE.
- LVIII.--ANOTHER IDLE FANCY.
- LXI.--CONTINUATION.
- LXVII.--THEOLOGY IS BUT A SERIES OF PALPABLE CONTRADICTIONS.
- LXXII.--IT IS ABSURD TO SAY THAT EVIL DOES NOT COME FROM GOD.
- LXXV.--THE DEVIL, LIKE RELIGION, WAS INVENTED TO ENRICH THE PRIESTS.
- LXXX.--FREE WILL IS AN IDLE FANCY.
- LXXXII.--REFUTATION OF THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF FREE WILL.
- LXXXIII.--CONTINUATION.
- XCV.--COMPARISON BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMALS.
- XCVI.--THERE ARE NO MORE DETESTABLE ANIMALS IN THIS WORLD THAN TYRANTS.
- XCVII.--REFUTATION OF MAN'S EXCELLENCE.
- XCVIII.--AN ORIENTAL LEGEND.
- CII.--IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE WHOLE OF MAN DIES.
- CIII.--INCONTESTABLE PROOFS AGAINST THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE SOUL.
- CIV.--THE ABSURDITY OF SUPERNATURAL CAUSES, WHICH THEOLOGIANS CONSTANTLY
- CALL TO THEIR AID.
- CV.--IT IS FALSE THAT MATERIALISM CAN BE DEBASING TO THE HUMAN RACE.
- CVI.--CONTINUATION.
- CXII.--CONTINUATION.
- CXIII.--CONTINUATION.
- CXIV.--A UNIVERSAL GOD SHOULD HAVE REVEALED A UNIVERSAL RELIGION.
- CXVII.--OPINION OF A CELEBRATED THEOLOGIAN.
- CXXI.--ALL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES BEAR THE SEAL OF STUPIDITY OR BARBARITY.
- CXXIV.--REVELATION REFUTED.
- CXXVI.--NOTHING ESTABLISHES THE TRUTH OF MIRACLES.
- CXXVIII.--OBSCURE AND SUSPICIOUS ORIGIN OF ORACLES.
- CXXIX.--ABSURDITY OF PRETENDED MIRACLES.
- CXXXVIII.--FAITH TAKES ROOT BUT IN WEAK, IGNORANT, OR INDOLENT MINDS.
- CXL.--RELIGION IS NOT NECESSARY TO MORALITY AND TO VIRTUE.
- CXLII.--HONOR IS A MORE SALUTARY AND A STRONGER CHECK THAN RELIGION.
- CLXIX.--A RELIGIOUS KING IS A SCOURGE TO HIS KINGDOM.
- CLII.--WHAT IS AN ENLIGHTENED SOVEREIGN?
- CLIV.--CHARLATANRY OF THE PRIESTS.
- CLVII.--ABUSE OF A STATE RELIGION.
- CLVIII.--RELIGION GIVES LICENSE TO THE FEROCITY OF THE PEOPLE BY
- CLX.--ALL MORALITY IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.
- CLXI.--THE MORALS OF THE GOSPEL ARE IMPRACTICABLE.
- CLXII.--A SOCIETY OF SAINTS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.
- CLXIV.--OF JESUS CHRIST, THE PRIEST'S GOD.
- CLXVI.--THE FEAR OF GOD IS POWERLESS AGAINST HUMAN PASSIONS.
- CLXVII.--THE INVENTION OF HELL IS TOO ABSURD TO PREVENT EVIL.
- CLXXIV.--CREEDS ARE BURDENSOME AND RUINOUS TO THE MAJORITY OF NATIONS.
- CLXXV.--RELIGION PARALYZES MORALITY.
- CLXXVI.--FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF PIETY.
- CLXXVIII.--AN ATHEIST HAS MORE MOTIVES FOR ACTING UPRIGHTLY, MORE
- CONSCIENCE, THAN A RELIGIOUS PERSON.
- CLXXX.--THE MORALITY ACQUIRED BY PHILOSOPHY IS SUFFICIENT TO VIRTUE.
- CLXXXI.--OPINIONS RARELY INFLUENCE CONDUCT.
- CLXXXIII.--FEAR ALONE CREATES THEISTS AND BIGOTS.
- CLXXXIV.--CAN WE, OR SHOULD WE, LOVE OR NOT LOVE GOD?
- CLXXXVII.--PRIESTS, MORE THAN UNBELIEVERS, ACT FROM INTEREST.
- CXCIII.--IT IS NOT TRUE THAT ATHEISM SUNDERS ALL THE TIES OF SOCIETY.
- CXCV.--EVERY RATIONAL SYSTEM IS NOT MADE FOR THE MULTITUDE.
- CXCVI.--FUTILITY AND DANGER OF THEOLOGY. WISE COUNSELS TO PRINCES.
- CXCVII.--FATAL EFFECTS OF RELIGION UPON THE PEOPLE AND THE PRINCES.
- CXCVIII.--CONTINUATION.
- CCI.--THEOLOGY HAS ALWAYS TURNED PHILOSOPHY FROM ITS TRUE COURSE.
- CCIV.--CONTINUATION.
- CCVI.--RELIGION IS PANDORA'S BOX, AND THIS FATAL BOX IS OPEN.
- ETREPIGNY, March 15, 1732
- JOHN MESLIER
- ABSTRACT OF THE TESTAMENT OF JOHN MESLIER
- OR, SENTIMENTS OF THE CURATE OF ETREPIGNY ADDRESSED TO HIS PARISHIONERS.
- I.--OF RELIGIONS.
- Here is another contradiction in regard to the first thing which Jesus
- II.--OF MIRACLES.
- III.--SIMILARITY BETWEEN ANCIENT AND MODERN MIRACLES.
- IV.--OF THE FALSITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
- V.--(1) OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
- VI.--(2) THE NEW TESTAMENT.
- VII.--ERRORS OF DOCTRINE AND OF MORALITY.
- PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
- PETER ECKLER.
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- ANNA KNOOP.
- PREFACE OF THE EDITOR OF THE FRENCH EDITION OF 1830.
- VOLTAIRE TO D'ALEMBERT.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- D'ALEMBERT'S ANSWER.
- VOLTAIRE TO D'ALEMBERT.
- D'ALEMBERT'S ANSWER.
- D'ALEMBERT TO VOLTAIRE.
- VOLTAIRE TO D'ALEMBERT.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE COUNT D'ARGENTAL.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- VOLTAIRE TO D'AMILAVILLE.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE SAME.
- VOLTAIRE TO MADAM DE FLORIAN.
- VOLTAIRE TO THE MARQUIS D'ARGENCE.
- VOLTAIRE TO HELVETIUS.
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