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The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1

by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1723–1789)

21 chapters, about 120,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION 700 words
2. Preface 300 words
3. PREFACE 1,400 words
4. CHAP. I. 3,900 words
5. CHAP. II. 5,700 words
6. CHAP. III. 2,400 words
7. CHAP. IV. 4,400 words
8. CHAP. V. 4,600 words
9. CHAP. VI. 5,800 words
10. CHAP. VII. 4,900 words
11. CHAP. VIII. 4,900 words
12. CHAP. IX. 12,200 words
13. CHAP. X. 9,600 words
14. CHAP. XI 11,500 words
15. CHAP. XII. 11,000 words
16. CHAP. XIII. 10,900 words
17. CHAP. XIV. 6,700 words
18. CHAP. XV. 7,900 words
19. CHAP. XVI 6,300 words
20. CHAP. XVII. 3,000 words
21. CONCLUSION. 1,800 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Atomism
• Brahmin
• Brain
• Deliberation
• Doctrine
• General will
• Incorporeality
• Mendicant
• Nature
• Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)
• Utility

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