"FREETHINKER'S LIBRARY" SERIES

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE


The chief design in reprinting this translation, is to preserve
"_the strongest atheistical work_" for present and future generations
of English Freethinkers.

The real author was, unquestionably, Paul Thyry; Baron D'Holbach,
and not John Meslier, to whom this work has been wrongly attributed,
under the title of "Le Bon Sens" (Common Sense).

In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, "Systeme de la Nature,"
which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud.
That text-book of "Atheistical Philosophy" caused a great sensation,
and two years later, 1772, the Baron published this excellent
abridgment of it, freed from arbitrary ideas; and by its clearness of
expression, facility, and precision of style, rendered it most suitable