A contemplation of the wonders that man had wrought for himself, replaced meditation on the wonders that were alleged to have been wrought by the gods.

The latter were not so much denied by the plain reader, as they were gradually left out of sight and forgotten.

Nobody now cares to disprove Jupiter and Juno, Satyrs and Hamadryads.
Diderot constantly insists on the propriety, the importance, the indispensableness of keeping the provinces of science and philosophy apart from the province of theology.

This separation is much sought in our own day as a means of saving theology.

Diderot designed it to save philosophy.