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The System of Nature, Volume I (of II), carries an introduction by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. The production notes say it was first published in French in 1770 under the pseudonym of Mirabaud, and that this e-book covers the first of the original two volumes, based on an English translation originally published in 1820 and 1821. The introduction says Baron d'Holbach, who lived from 1723 to 1789, was the center of the radical wing of the philosophes, and names Diderot, D'Alembert, Helvetius and Hume among his wide circle.
In one passage the text says man has neglected to study Nature and her laws, and that ignorance of himself has hindered him from enlightening his morals. Another passage imagines proposing to a man that he change his religion for yours, and says each will treat the other as an absurd being.
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- Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
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- 220
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