...people, were such as Moses, Confucius, Plato and Socrates, who were opposed to materialism, and taught the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul. Plato has a very noble plea, and it has come down to our times. I will quote a brief paragraph. He...

...disappears and the worship of the Goddess of Reason takes its place (page 256). 1794 Robespierre decrees the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. Pius VI. protests against all these acts, is made prisoner, and Rome is proclaimed a republic (1798)....

...disciples of the worship of Reason, induced the Convention to pass a decree in May, declaring that : " The existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul were truths," and at the new festivals of the Supreme Being in, the gardens of the Tuileries made himself...

...hope, one day, to see sufficient demonstrations of the two cardinal propositions of pure reason — the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul. I am certain, on the contrary, that this will never be the case. For on wliat ground can reason base...

...under new forms. On the 7th of May, he carried a decree by which the Convention formally recognised the existence of a supreme being and the immortality of the soul. A month later he presided, with almost pontifical dignity, over the " festival of the supreme being,"...

...but recently declared the contrary, now voted by acclamation that " the French people acknowledged the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul." A theatrical and ridiculous ceremony was performed on the 8th of June in the gardens of the Tuileries,...

...Finally, on May 7, 1794, he persuaded the convention to decree that the French people acknowledges the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul, and that festivals ought to be introduced tending to re-awaken in men thoughts of the Divinity. The first...

...keep up his character for piety. The decree was passed, and the French nation thereby acknowledged the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul. The following days were annually to be celebrated as festivals : July 14, August 10, January 21, and...

...Maximilian mounted the Convention tribune to demand that it be decreed that " the French people recognises the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul," and that a festival should be held in the honour of said Being. In his speech he dwelt on the distinction...

...the day. It now turned its attention to religion. It was decreed that the French people acknowledged the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul, and that the worship most worthy of the Supreme Being is the practice of the duties of man. justice; modesty;...