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As Long As The Centuries Continue To Unfold, The Number Of Books Will Grow Continually, And One Can Predict That A Time Will Come When It Will Be Almost As Difficult To Learn Anything From Books As From The Direct Study Of The Whole Universe. It Will Be Almost As Convenient To Search For Some Bit Of Truth Concealed In Nature As It Will Be To Find It Hidden Away In An Immense Multitude Of Bound Volumes.

Only A Very Bad Theologian Would Confuse The Certainty That Follows Revelation With The Truths That Are Revealed. They Are Entirely Different Things.

One Must Be Oneself Very Little Of A Philosopher Not To Feel That The Finest Privilege Of Our Reason Consists In Not Believing In Anything By The Impulsion Of A Blind And Mechanical Instinct, And That It Is To Dishonour Reason To Put It In Bonds As The Chaldeans Did. Man Is Born To Think For Himself.

Which Is The Greater Merit, To Enlighten The Human Race, Which Remains Forever, Or To Save One's Fatherland, Which Is Perishable?

If Ever Anybody Dedicated His Whole Life To The "enthusiasm For Truth And Justice" Using This Phrase In The Good Sense It Was Diderot.