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Introduction.
CHAPTER I. HOLBACH THE MAN.
Early Letters to John Wilkes.
Holbach's family.
Relations with Diderot, Rousseau, Hume, Garrick
and other important persons of the century.
Estimate of Holbach. His character and personality.
CHAPTER II. HOLBACH'S WORKS.
Miscellaneous Works.
Translations of German Scientific Works.
Translations of English Deistical Writers.
Boulanger's AntiquitÉ dÉvoilÉe.
Original Works: Le Christianisme devoilÉ.
ThÉologie portative.
La Contagion sacrÉe.
Essai sur les prÉjugÉs.
Le bons-sens.
CHAPTER III. THE SystÈme de la Nature AND ITS PHILOSOPHY.
Voltaire's correspondence on the subject.
Goethe's sentiment.
Refutations and criticisms.
Holbach's philosophy.
APPENDIX. HOLBACH'S CORRESPONDENCE.
Five unpublished letters to John Wilkes.
[ENDNOTES]
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Part I. Editions of Holbach's works in Chronological Order.
Part II. General Bibliography.


BARON D'HOLBACH

A une extrÉme justesse d'esprit il joignait une simplicitÉ
de moeurs tout-À-fait antique et patriarcale.

J. A. Naigeon, Journal de Paris, le 9 fev. 1789

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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