Excerpt from Le Problème du Mal: Sept Discours
Des auditoires très nombreux ayant répondu à cet appel, il a été nécessaire de laisser de côté les termes et les formules de l'école, pour présenter sous une forme littéraire, dans un style intelügible à tous, les résultats d'une recherche scientifique. Il n'était pas moins nécessaire, pour conserver à l'étude annoncée le caractère de la philosophie, d'aborder les côtés obscurs du problème, et de ne jamais substituer des formes oratoires à des arguments. Je me suis efforcé de répondre autant que possible a la double exigence née de la nature du sujet et de la composition de l'auditoire.
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