There was vengeance in his very accent, but there was piety also.

Voltaire's followers would have overturned altars, those of Rousseau would have raised them.

The one could have done without virtues, and made arrangements with thrones; the other had absolute need of a God, and could only have founded republics.
Their numerous disciples progressed with their missions, and possessed all the organs of public thought.

From the seat of geometry to the consecrated pulpit, the philosophy of the 18th century invaded or altered every thing.

D'Alembert, Diderot, Raynal, Buffon, Condorcet, Bernardin Saint Pierre, Helvetius, Saint Lambert, La Harpe, were the church of the new era.