Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
Translated by Robert Clifford
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CHAP. I. Of the Principal AEiors of the Confpiracj.
Of the Principal AEiors of the Confpiracj.
ABOUT the middle of this century, there appeared three men leagued in the moft inveterate hatred agaiiift Chriftianity. Thefe were Voltaire, D’Alembert, and Frederick II. King of Pruflla. Voltaire hated religion becaufe he was jealous of its Author, and of all thofe whom it had rendered illuftrious i D’Alembert becaufe his cold heart was incapable of afFe£t ion; Frederick becaufe he had never feen it but through the medium of its enemies.
To thefe three a fourth mufl be added, named Diderot; hating religion becaufe he doated on nature; enthufiaftically wedded to the chaos of his own ideas, he chofe rather to build his fyftem on chimeras and form myileries of his own, than fubmit to the light of the Gofpel.
Numerous were the adepts afterwards drawn into this confpiracy, generally ftupid admirers or fecondary agents. Voltaire the chief, D’Alembert the moft fubtle agent, Frederick the prote£lor and often the advifer, Diderot the forlorn hope.
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