The System of Nature: Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World, Volumes 1-2 |
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able according action atheist attributes Baron d'Holbach believe blind body brain cause celestial monarch CHAPTER chimeras conduct consequence crime Deism deists Descartes desire Divinity earth effects ence Epicurus errour essence eternal evil experience faculty favourable fear feel felicity free agent frequently give Gods habit happiness heart human species ideas igneous ignorance imagination impulse infinite innate ideas intel intelligence interest labour laws ligion Malebranche manner matter ment mind miserable modified morality motion motives nations natural philosophy nature necessarily necessary necessity never objects obliged opinions organs ourselves passions peculiar perceive phantom Plato pleasure prejudices present pretended priests principles produce prove punish qualities reason received religion render rience senses sensible short sion society sophisms soul sovereign spirit superstition supposed temperament thee theologians theology thing thou thyself tion true truth ture tyrant unceasingly virtue virtuous whilst whole wicked