Synopsis:
- The misery that afflicts humankind is caused by religion and superstition
- There is no God who controls destiny and rewards or punishes individuals
- The soul is a property of the physical body, which dies when the body dies
- All natural phenomena can be understood in terms of the motion and features of matter
- All that exist is visible to us
- The history of the world is history of causes and effects
- Every event has an influence on the universe
- Ethics is enlightened self-interest
- A state's goal is to preserve the general welfare ("ethocracy")
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