Max Pearson Cushing studies Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach, the wealthy host of the Paris philosophes and author of the Système de la nature. He sketches the man and his salon, surveys his many anonymous works against religion and despotism, and analyses the materialism and atheism of his chief book, with a full bibliography.
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