Crossword-Solution: DIDEROTS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The ideas of the thinkers will not halt; just as, in the last century, all the governmental forces could not prevent the Diderots and the Voltaires from spreading emancipating ideas among the people, so all the existing governmental forces will not prevent the Reclus, the Darwins, the Spencers, the Ibsens, the Mirbeaus, from spreading the ideas of justice and liberty which will annihilate the prejudices that hold the mass in ignorance.

The Marceaus, the Massenas, the Rousseaus, the Diderots and the Rollins often sprout forth suddenly from the social swamp, when it is in a condition of fermentation; but, here we plead guilty of deliberate inaccuracy.

These Diderots in miniature are, in ordinary life, like the genial Panurge of the encyclopedia, honest citizens, not really a whit less timorous than the rest.

Like myself, you have dined and supped with the Diderots and Raynals--pleasant people, no doubt, but dangerous advisers." "I have!" exclaimed his excited hearer; "and neither I, nor any other man, would have met them without admiring their talents.

Enough of French to understand the authors tabooed by our Jesuit professors,--the Voltaires, the Rousseaus, the Diderots; enough of Arabic to enable one to parse and analyse the verse of Al-Mutanabbi; enough of Church History to show us, not how the Church wielded the sword of persecution, but how she was persecuted herself by the pagans and barbarians of the earth;--of these and such like consists the edifying curriculum.