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The importance of the love of truth. Why, along with the Encyclopedist Likely referring to Denis Diderot, the primary editor of the Encyclopédie and author of the article on "Eclecticism", Author of the article on Eclecticism A school of philosophy that does not hold to a single paradigm but draws upon multiple theories to gain complementary insights into a subject, we also attack Mr. Brucker Johann Jakob Brucker (1696–1770), a German historian whose "Critical History of Philosophy" was a primary source for the Encyclopédie in several parts of this Work. How little the Encyclopedist has respected the truth. Proof of this accusation.
OF all the sentiments that nature inspires, there is none that one should cultivate with more care than the love of truth. This precious gift contains the seed of every virtue; I might add, and of all true talents. Great men we- The original French text "fu-" is a truncation of "furent" (were), cut off by the end of the page.