ÈLOGE DE BUFFON (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Èloge de BuffonCest que tout ce qui est mort eflraye. Les peuples qui chan gent ont peur de leur passé, les religions mortes ont leurs spectres et leurs revenants qui viennent épouvanter ceux mêmes qui ont cessé dy croire. Limagination est plus que lesprit fidèle à ses croyances, et la crainte est le dernier hommage que lon rend aux dieux qui sen vont. _vainement la religion chrétienne essayait de bannir ces superstitions. Le soir, lorsque les paysans regagnaient leurs chaumières en sortant des belles églises gothi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,