“Our century has called itself the philosophic century par excellence… from the principles of the profane sciences to the foundations of revelation, from metaphysics to questions of taste, from music to morals, from the scholastic disputes of theologians to commercial affairs, from the rights of princes to those of the people, from the natural law to the arbitrary laws of nations, in a word from the questions that affect us most to those that interest us least, everything has been discussed, analyzed, and disputed.”

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Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

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