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Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)

CHAPTER VI
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You have read the _Man with Forty Crowns_,[217] and will hardly be able to guess why it is placed under the ban in the judgment I am telling you of.

It is in consequence of the profound resentment that our lords and masters feel about a certain article, _Tyrant_, in the _Philosophical Dictionary_.

They will never forgive Voltaire for saying that it was better to have to do with a single wild beast, which one could avoid, than with a band of little subaltern tigers who are incessantly getting between your legs....

To return to those two unfortunate wretches whom they have condemned to the galleys.
When they come out, what will become of them?
There will be nothing left for them to do, save to turn highway robbers.

The ignominious penalties, which take away all resource from a man, are worse than the capital punishment that takes away his life."[218] _Method and Genius: an Apologue._--"There was a question between Grimm and M.Le Roy of creative genius and co-ordinating method.


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