French Free Thought from Gassendi to Voltaire [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 15 (1):196-196 (1961)
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A richly detailed history of French secular thought in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. A wealth of material is introduced from unpublished manuscripts. Spink's stress on the clandestine spread of the enlightenment, in spite of official suppression, is interesting and sobering.--J. M. W.

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