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THE aim of the author in presenting this sketch of eighteenth-century thinkers is “to show how much our freedom of thought derives from their determined onslaught on the restrictions imposed upon human reason by the religious system inaugurated and controlled by orthodox Christianity”. The theme centres around the attacks on religion by well-known French writers ; for the purpose of the book “we may take as their enemy any form of sectarian Christianity”. Whenever the word philosopher denotes “the French sense of rationalist, social-minded propagandist”, it is printed in italics.
A Century for Freedom
A Survey of the French 'Philosophers'. By Dr. Kenneth Urwin. (Thinker's Library, No. 109.) Pp. vi + 116. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 2s. net.
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ANTHONY, H. A Century for Freedom. Nature 157, 641 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157641a0
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