It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot … - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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About Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Evelyn Beatrice Hall (28 September 1868 – 13 April 1956) was an English writer, who wrote under the name Stephen G. Tallentyre.

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Pen Names: Stephen G. Tallentyre

Alternative Names: S. G. Tallentyre • Evelyn Hall

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Disapprovo quello che dite, ma difenderò fino alla morte il vostro diritto di dirlo

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

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