“The Renaissance was the resurrection, the worship, the fanatic adoration of paganism with all its literary, artistic, philosophical, moral, and religious idols. The Renaissance gave birth to the Re-formation. The Reformation gave birth to Voltairian impiety, and Voltairian impiety gave birth to the French Re-volution. The French Revolution is the most dreadful moral cata-strophe the world has ever seen.”
Louis Menard



