AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: Chapter 17: The 18th Century—An …

f. Laid foundation for 19th Century economic. liberalism. 17. Baron Paul d’Holbach (1723-1789) a. wealthy German aristocrat who settled in Paris. b. preached a doctrine of strict atheism and. materialism. c. wrote System of Nature (1770) which stated that men. were machines and God was a mere product of the human. mind and was unnecessary for ... ................
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