Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.


'Essai sur les Études en Russie', in J. Assézat (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes (1875–7), Vol. 3, 416. Quoted in Peter Gay, The Enlightenment (1966), Vol. 1

Denis Diderot Quotes

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.