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Jim Hawkins
Dec 8, 2011, 5:06:09 PM12/8/11
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"There is a science that has for its subject only things incomprehensible,
Contrary to all other sciences, it treats only of what cannot fall under our
senses. Hobbes calls it the 'kingdom of darkness'. It is a country where
everything is governed by laws contrary to those which mankind are permitted
to know in the world they inhabit. In this marvellous region, light is only
darkness; evidence is doubtful or false,; impossibilities are credible;
reason is a deceitful guide; and good sense becomes madness. This 'science'
is called theology, and this theology is a continual insult to the reason of
man."
- Baron d'Holbach, "Good Sense" 1772
Contrary to all other sciences, it treats only of what cannot fall under our
senses. Hobbes calls it the 'kingdom of darkness'. It is a country where
everything is governed by laws contrary to those which mankind are permitted
to know in the world they inhabit. In this marvellous region, light is only
darkness; evidence is doubtful or false,; impossibilities are credible;
reason is a deceitful guide; and good sense becomes madness. This 'science'
is called theology, and this theology is a continual insult to the reason of
man."
- Baron d'Holbach, "Good Sense" 1772
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