The atheistic works of Paul Holbach, one of the outstanding French enlightenment materialists of the 18th century, belong to the best achievements of the atheism of the past. Created almost two centuries ago, they are not relegated to the category of those literary and philosophical monuments that are of interest only to a narrow circle of specialists. Despite the fact that scientific criticism of religion has moved far forward since then, these works, filled with passionate hatred of superstition, can still today successfully serve the noble cause to which their author devoted his extraordinary talent - the liberation of human consciousness from deadening religious ideas...