CHAPTER VI.
SOCIAL LIFE (1759-1770).
Any one must be ignorant of the facts who supposes that the men of the eighteenth century who did not believe in God, and were as little continent as King David, were therefore no better than the reckless vagabonds of Grub Street.

Diderot, after he had once settled down to his huge task, became a very orderly person.

It is true that he had an attachment to a lady who was not his wife.

Marriage was in those days, among the courtiers and the encyclopaedic circle, too habitually regarded as merely an official relation.

Provided that there was no official desertion, and no scandal, the world had nothing to say.