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Raynal has taken, with Diderot, a place in French literature which is probably permanent --an estimate as far astray as the declaration on the same page that the English deists are buried in
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Raynal's vogue in his day was indeed immense (cp. Morley, Diderot, ch. xv); and Edmond Scherer (Études sur la litt. du 18e Siècle, 1891, pp. 277-78) held that Raynal's Histoire philosophique des deux Indes had had more influence on the French Revolution than even Rousseau's Contrat Social. But the book has long been discredited (cp. Scherer, pp. 275-76). A biographical Dictionary of 1844 spoke of it as
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Although the first edition (1770) passed the censure only by means of bribery, and the second (1780) was publicly burned, and its author forced to leave France, he was said to reject, in religion,