Diderot And the Encyclopædists
Diderot And the Encyclopædists
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P. 104.
[221] xix. 200.
Diderot's position in these twelve letters may be described in generalterms as being that the sentiment of immortality and respect forposterity move the heart and elevate the soul; they are two germs ofgreat things, two promises as solid as any other, and two delights asreal as most of the delights of life, but more noble, more profitable, and more virtuous. What Diderot means by immortality is not thereligious dogma, that the individual personality will be objective...lypreserved and prolonged in some other mode of existence. On thecontrary, it was his disbelief in this dogma of the churches that gave acertain keenness to his pleading for that other kind of immortality, which prolongs our personality only in the grateful and admiringmemories of other people who come after us. He intended by the sentimentof immortality "the desire to surround one's name with lustre amongposterity; to be the admiration and the talk of centuries to come; toobtain after death the same honours as we pay to those who have gonebefore us; to furnish a fine line to the historian; to inscribe one'sown name by the side of those which we never pronounce without sheddinga tear, heaving a sigh, or being touched by regret; to secure forourselves the blessings that we have such a thrill in bestowing onSully, Henry IV.
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P. 104.
[221] xix. 200.
Diderot's position in these twelve letters may be described in generalterms as being that the sentiment of immortality and respect forposterity move the heart and elevate the soul; they are two germs ofgreat things, two promises as solid as any other, and two delights asreal as most of the delights of life, but more noble, more profitable, and more virtuous. What Diderot means by immortality is not thereligious dogma, that the individual personality will be objective...lypreserved and prolonged in some other mode of existence. On thecontrary, it was his disbelief in this dogma of the churches that gave acertain keenness to his pleading for that other kind of immortality, which prolongs our personality only in the grateful and admiringmemories of other people who come after us. He intended by the sentimentof immortality "the desire to surround one's name with lustre amongposterity; to be the admiration and the talk of centuries to come; toobtain after death the same honours as we pay to those who have gonebefore us; to furnish a fine line to the historian; to inscribe one'sown name by the side of those which we never pronounce without sheddinga tear, heaving a sigh, or being touched by regret; to secure forourselves the blessings that we have such a thrill in bestowing onSully, Henry IV.
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