First published in French in 1772 as Le Bon Sens, this is a compressed restatement of Holbach’s materialist philosophy. In more than two hundred short sections he argues that the attributes theologians give to God are contradictory, that religion grows from fear and ignorance, and that morality needs no supernatural foundation.
A pithy classic of freethought from the circle of the French Encyclopedists, in a c. 1900 English translation. Download the free EPUB.