What the Encyclopædists certainly did was to raise Bacon, for a time, to the popular throne from which Voltaire's Newtonianism had pushed Descartes.
The efforts of the Encyclopædists were not disinterested in the sense of being vague blows in the air.
The Encyclopædists advanced with grave solicitude to the consideration of evils, to which the red-heeled parasites of Versailles were insolently and incorrigibly blind.
The Encyclopædists were no doubt all men of battle, and some of them were hardly more than mere partisans.
The truth is that it was impossible for an effective antagonism to the classic school to rise in the mind of an Encyclopædist, for the reason that the Encyclopædists hated and ignored what they called the Dark Ages.
The Encyclopædists were the most ardent propagators of the modern principles of tolerance.
But the popular impression that the Encyclopædists constituted a single body with a common doctrine and a common aim was practically sound.
It is very easy to show that the Encyclopædists had not established an impregnable scientific basis for their philosophy.
The Encyclopædists are never weary of contrasting their own age of practical rationalism with "the pusillanimous ages of taste.
By system the Encyclopædists meant more or less coherent bodies of frivolous conjecture.
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In these days he animated the Encyclopædists with his spirit, encouraging them in their gigantic undertaking, the "Carroccio of the battle of the eighteenth century.
The pastors of Geneva were regarded by the Encyclopædists as sympathizers and co-laborers in overthrowing the distinctive doctrines of the Gospel.
Naturalism could not live thus long in Italy, nor Deism in England, nor the blind Atheism of the Encyclopædists in France; neither in either land was the work of destruction so complete.
Side by side with the Encyclopædists were the Economists or Physiocrats, who were making bold and crude inquiries into the production and distribution of food and goods.
Both the Encyclopædists and the various Economists and Physiocrats demanded a considerable amount of hard thinking in their disciples.
We can only in this way understand the position of the Encyclopædists in Europe, and see why it is interesting to the student of the history of Western civilisation to know something about them.
How, then, did it come to pass that these were eventually the two subjects to which the Encyclopædists devoted the greatest attention, so that their work became principally an attack on Church and monarchy?
But in using the lodges to sow the seeds of revolution, the Encyclopædists betrayed not only the cause of monarchy but of Masonry as well.
The condition of science in the eighteenth century did not allow the encyclopædists to make advantageous use of their logical machine.
Hence the philosophy of the encyclopædists was kicked and abused, and the same faults were committed with respect to it which it had perpetrated; the methods of intelligent criticism were mistaken for the results obtained by them.
The Encyclopædists might almost be said to have given the human mind a fresh start and a new orbit.
It ought to be added that the aim of the Encyclopædists was political also, not less than religious.
The fact is, that the Encyclopædists came at length to be nearly as much occupied in extinguishing Christianity, as in promoting public enlightenment.
Everybody has heard of the Encyclopædists of France.
An observer by no means friendly to the priests noticed that at Paris it was not the fanatics of orthodoxy, but the encyclopædists and their flock, who on this occasion raised the storm and set the zeal of the magistrates in motion.
The Encyclopædists knew that they had sapped religious dogma and shaken ecclesiastical organisation.
He recognised a something in men, which the Encyclopædists treated as a chimera imposed on the imagination by theologians and others for their own purposes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
