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Philosophy and religion.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin A. Burtt papers

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924078878265]
Identifier: 14-21-2593
Abstract

Manuscripts and other papers of Edwin A. Burtt, a Cornell University professor of philosophy.

Dates: 1950-1988.

Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon letter to the Abbé de Launay, Paris

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113564094]
Identifier: 4700-0004
Scope and content

Letter in which Buffon criticizes Jean-Baptiste Le Corgne de Launay's plan to "attack the ideas of the Baron d'Holbach, author of Le système de la nature (1770), in which he attacked religion, with an accompanying manuscript note in French and a handwritten English translation.

Dates: 1773 June 4.