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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
Dr. Dick, in his work on The Improvement of

Society, p. 154, says: “The way for such a

revolution was prepared by the writings of

Voltaire, Mirabeau, Diderot, Helvetius,

D’Alembert, Condorcet, Rousseau, and others

of the same stamp, in which they endeavored

to disseminate principles subversive both of

natural and revealed religion. Revelation was

not only impugned, but entirely set aside. The

Deity was banished from the universe, and an

imaginary phantom, under the name of the

Goddess of Reason, substituted in his place.

The carved work of all religious belief and

moral practice was boldly cut down by Carnot

and Robespierre and their atheistic

associates. Nature was investigated by

pretended philosophers, only with the view to

darken the mind, and prevent mankind from

considering anything as real but what the