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| - | :"Sly [[cross-reference]]s were used to spark off chains of thought. Under "[[Freedom of Thought]]", readers were referred to "Intolerance & Jesus Christ", and under "Cannibals", to "Eucharist, Communion". One of the most boring writers in Paris was used for the religious topics. The [[Abbé Mallet]]'s epic disquisition on [[Noah's Ark]] was such a masterpiece of pedantry, calculating the size of the stables and the quantity of dung produced, that no one who read it could possibly take the Bible seriously as a work of history." -- [[Graham Robb]] reviews ''[[Encyclopédie: The triumph of reason in an unreasonable age|Encyclopédie]]'' by [[Philipp Blom]] | + | [[Abbé Mallet entry on Noah's Ark]] in L'Encyclopédie]] |
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| + | [[Abbé Mallet]] wrote the [[Noah's Ark]] article in ''[[L'Encyclopédie]]''. In its absurd quest for correctness, Mallet calculated the size of the stables and the quantity of dung produced, after which it became difficult to take the Bible seriously as a work of history." | ||
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Abbé Mallet wrote the Noah's Ark article in L'Encyclopédie. In its absurd quest for correctness, Mallet calculated the size of the stables and the quantity of dung produced, after which it became difficult to take the Bible seriously as a work of history."
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