# Of the importance of religious opinions Author: Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804; Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 [Translator] Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76773 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Of+the+importance+of+religious+opinions+Necker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary My thoughts having been detached from the study and disquisition of those truths which have the political good of the state for their object; and being no longer obliged to fix any attention on those particular arrangements of the public interest, which are necessarily connected with the operations of government; I found myself abandoned, as it were, by all the important concerns of life. Restless and wandering in this kind of void, my soul, still active, felt the want of employment. I sometimes formed the design of tracing my ideas of men and characters; I imagined that long experience in the midst of those active scenes which discover the passions, had taught me to know them well; but e... ## Chapters - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-importance-of-religious-opinions-76773/chapters/21/index.md)