Critical History of Eclecticism

But let us hasten to provide the proof that we are not slandering the Encyclopedist Encyclopedist: A contributor to the famous Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, often criticized by contemporary religious authors for promoting skepticism and materialist philosophy.. Moreover, nothing is less of a digression at the start of a Polemic Polemic: A written attack intended to discredit a specific person or set of ideas. than to make known the Author whom one attacks. One would be surprised by what I attribute to him, if I did not place before the eyes of the Reader the text of the Encyclopedist, without omitting anything. I therefore first transcribe the entire article Epidelius.

" Epidelius, a surname of Apollo. Menophanes, who commanded the fleet of Mithridates Mithridates VI: The King of Pontus and a formidable enemy of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BCE., took Delos, plundered the Temple of Apollo, and threw the statue of the God into the sea. But the waters miraculously supported it, and carried it to the shores of Laconia Laconia: A region in the southeastern Peloponnese, centered on Sparta., in the vicinity of the Promontory of Malea Cape Malea: A dangerous coastal area in southern Greece., where the Lacedaemonians Lacedaemonians: The Spartans. built a Temple to Apollo Epidelius,"