id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8909 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 .txt text/plain 121781 3540 50 PART I--Laws of Nature.--Of man.--The faculties of the soul. LAWS OF NATURE--OF MAN--THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL--DOCTRINE OF Man, in fact, finds himself in Nature, and makes a part of it: he acts universe, generated in the mind of man the idea of ORDER; this term, Nature_: man finds order in every thing that is conformable to his the manner of man's considering the natural and necessary effects, which the natural means to render the beings with whom he lives happy; to _Happiness_ is a mode of existence of which man naturally wishes the The ideas which man forms to himself of happiness depend not only on his Whatever may be the cause that obliges man to act, society possesses manner which is but little accordant with the nature of things: each man The passion for existence is in man only a natural consequence man has designated the concealed causes acting in nature, and their ./cache/8909.txt ./txt/8909.txt