The System of Nature
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Sep 25, 2026
Celine MajourNARRATOR
Immense difficulties attended the publication of this important work, notwithstanding that care was taken to exclude any expressions of overt contempt or hostility towards current prejudices.
Celine MajourNARRATOR
Again, we must not forget the materialist atheists, central among whom was Baron d'Holbach, the anonymous author of the celebrated System of Nature, a book which, though crude according to modern notions, did good work in its day.
Celine MajourNARRATOR
Work which a treatise of more intrinsic philosophical value probably would not have achieved.
Celine MajourNARRATOR
It is noteworthy that most of the other prominent names among the pre-revolutionary writers, including Rousseau and Voltaire, are those of ardent deists.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Diderot, however, did not obtrude in the Encyclopedia the definitely anti-religious opinions which he had developed and which are revealed in his correspondence.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Holbach A disciple of the Encyclopedist, Holbach, a young German settled in Paris, was bolder than his master, and published, under the name of a savant who had recently died, a book which became widely notorious and has been called the Bible of Materialism, the Système de la Nature, 1770.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Like Voltaire's Éléments and Lamettrie's L'Homme Machine, it was published in Holland.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
The book is materialism reduced to a system.