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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