From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu [Essay on Merit and Virtue] (1745)

Diderot’s essay is a translation of Shaftesbury’s Essay on the Merit of Virtue (1699).


 
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