...gymnosophists of India were the first to impart to the philosophers of other nations the sublime ideas of the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul ; and as in their teaching (though now enveloped in fables and unintelligible allegories) we discern...

...gymnosophists of India were the first to impart to the philosophers of other nations the sublime ideas of the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul ; and as in their teaching (though now enveloped in fables and unintelligible allegories) we discern...

...after this discourse that Robespierre proposed a resolution, that the French people should acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul, and that the worship that was most welcome to the Supreme Being was the practice of the duties of man....

...the established forms of worship were swept away, although, by a decree of the representative body, the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul were finally acknowledged. The goddess of Reason, under the form of a woman, was placed on the altars...

...gymnosophists of India were the first to impart to the philosophers of other nations the sublime ideas of the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul ; and as in their teaching (though now enveloped in fables and unintelligible allegories) we discern...

...and in which the peculiar doctrines of the latter, are applied by our philosopher to demonstrate . the existence of a Supreme Being and the Immortality of the Soul. In this work he endeavored to establish that the soul is substantially, and in the most eminent sense...

...the established forms of worship were swept away, although, by a decree of the representative body, the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul were finally acknowledged. The goddess of Reason, under the form of a woman, was placed on the altars...

...of the era, he proclaimed with all the pomp and ostentation of display, on the 8th of June, 1794, " the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul;" nor was the sanguinary hierophant's discourse altogether unworthy of the occasion; but it checked not...

...of the adherents of the worship of Reason, had a resolution passed by the Convention in May, "That the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul were truths : " and rendered himself at once hateful and ridiculous by his pride at the new festival...

...seventh of Hay, to proclaim the restoration, as part of the national creed, of the two doctrines of the existence of a Supreme Being, and the Immortality of the Soul, which had been declared to be antiquated falsehoods a short time before the worship of Reason was established....