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Excerpt from Diderot, Vol. 1
Of moral and social direction. This function, so im measurably more important than the mere discovery of any number of physical relations, it was the glory of the Church to have discharged for some centuries with as much success as the conditions permitted. Re are told indeed by writers ignorant alike of human history and human nature, that only physical science can improve the social condition of man. The common sense of the world always rejects this gross fallacy. The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organization of western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
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