Critical History of Eclecticism

that which seems divine in the
establishment of Christianity
vanishes.

But since the facts recorded
in ancient Monuments Monuments: In this historical context, "monuments" refers to primary source documents, original manuscripts, and archaeological evidence from antiquity. refuse
to fit such ideas, they are
disguised, altered, and—if I may
put it this way—twisted to
force them into the systems
one has set out to
construct. Nevertheless, gaps
still remain to be filled in order
to complete the edifice. One
therefore resorts to
suppositions consistent with this
design; thus the result of the
whole is anything but a
faithful and exact account; it is
instead a history as it has been
imagined, and more than half-created.

To these two writers, we
could associate Mr. Deslandes André-François Deslandes (1689–1757) was a French philosopher. His Histoire Critique de la Philosophie (1737) was one of the first major histories of philosophy written in French, though it was often criticized by religious scholars for its secular and skeptical leanings.,
author of a Critical History
of Philosophy in French:
a superficial work, but one of