…be uprushes, unfortunately, from the unconscious of all kinds of silliness and stupidity. A painful example of this is the case of Voltaire, who prided himself, above all, on being a poet, a tragic poet. Unfortunately, he was a very bad, tragic poet. But…

…we must also remember that the age of Hume is at the same time the age of Wesley and William Law, the age of Voltaire and rationalism, is also the age of Cagliostro, the age in which Casanova was able to make a handsome living by ruthlessly exploiting…