Letters to Eugenia by Baron D'holbach
by baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789
- Title
- Letters To Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices
- Credits
- Produced by David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Christianity -- Controversial literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38094
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38094
- Release Date
- November 22, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LETTERS TO EUGENIA;
- 2.or, A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES.
- 3.By Baron D'holbach — (Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') Nicolas Fréret) — Translated From The French, By Anthony C. Middleton, M.D. — ..."Arctis Religionum animos nodis exsolvere pergo." Lucretii De Rerum Natura, lib. iv. v. 6,7. 1870
- 4.Contents —
- 5.NAIGEON'S PREFACE. — 1768.
- 6.TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. — LETTERS TO EUGENIA
- 7.LETTER I. Of the Sources of Credulity, and of the Motives which should lead to an examination of religion.
- 8.LETTER II. Of the Ideas which Religion gives us of the Divinity
- 9.LETTER III. An Examination of the Holy Scriptures, of the Nature of the Christian Religion, and of the Proofs upon which Christianity is founded
- 10.LETTER IV. Of the fundamental dogmas of the Christian Religion
- 11.LETTER V. Of the Immortality of the Soul, and of the Dogma of another Life
- 12.LETTER VI. Of the Mysteries, Sacraments, and Religious Ceremonies of Christianity
- 13.LETTER VII. Of the pious Rites, Prayers, and Austerities of Christianity
- 14.LETTER VIII. Of Evangelical Virtues and Christian Perfection
- 15.LETTER IX. Of the advantages contributed to Government by Religion
- 16.LETTER X. On the Advantages Religion confers on those who profess it
- 17.LETTER XI. Of Human or Natural Morality
- 18.LETTER XII. Of the small Consequence to be attached to Men's Speculations, and the Indulgence which should be extended to them
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