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Symbole d'un laïque, ou Profession de foi d’un homme désintéressé

Authors of source text

Thomas Gordon

Contributions

Paul Henri Dietrich d'Holbach
author

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Il simbolo di un uomo non sacerdote, ossia La professione di fede di un uomo disinteressato. Traduzione dall'inglese translation

Notes

The first two parts of the texts are literal translations. The actual profession of faith however, bears no relation to Gordon's source text. It is a radical atheist manifesto in line with d'Holbach's own thinking.

The text was published in a volume which collected five anticlerical texts by D'Holbach, all supposedly translated from the English.

See Antony McKenna (ed.), «Le Symbole d’un Laïque, ou la profession de foi d’un homme désintéressé», in P. Aquilon, J. Chupeau, F. Weil (ed.), L’Intelligence du Passé. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean Lafond, Tours, 1988, p.349-358.