or, A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES.

(Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') Nicolas Fréret)

Translated From The French, By Anthony C. Middleton, M.D.

..."Arctis Religionum animos nodis exsolvere pergo." Lucretii De Rerum Natura, lib. iv. v. 6,7. 1870

Contents

NAIGEON'S PREFACE.

1768.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

LETTER I. Of the Sources of Credulity, and of the Motives which should lead to an examination of religion.

LETTER II. Of the Ideas which Religion gives us of the Divinity

LETTER III. An Examination of the Holy Scriptures, of the Nature of the Christian Religion, and of the Proofs upon which Christianity is founded

LETTER IV. Of the fundamental dogmas of the Christian Religion

LETTER V. Of the Immortality of the Soul, and of the Dogma of another Life

LETTER VI. Of the Mysteries, Sacraments, and Religious Ceremonies of Christianity

LETTER VII. Of the pious Rites, Prayers, and Austerities of Christianity

LETTER VIII. Of Evangelical Virtues and Christian Perfection

LETTER IX. Of the advantages contributed to Government by Religion

LETTER X. On the Advantages Religion confers on those who profess it

LETTER XI. Of Human or Natural Morality

LETTER XII. Of the small Consequence to be attached to Men's Speculations, and the Indulgence which should be extended to them