“Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being.”

— Baron d'Holbach

Good Sense, or Natural Ideas vs. Supernatural

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French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist 1723–1789

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