"In the name of Nature the enlightened Holbach calls for the defense of one's country not only against external enemies but against internal tyrants. But what does he mean by "Nature"? There is nothing outside her; she is one and all at once. Man shall discover her laws, admire her inexhaustible energy, use his discoveries for his own happiness, and resign himself to his ignorance of her last, her ultimate causes which are impenetrable. With his whole being man belongs to her."
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Max Horkheimer, “Theism and Atheism” (1963), in Critique of Instrumental Reason (1974).
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