"what can one imagine more contrary to all the known facts
than this primitive state dreamed up by philosophy [(e.g. Rousseau)], in which
a troop of human orangutans, weary of devouring one another, improvise
finally society, language, intelligence; animal creators who invent humankind?"
Philippe Gerbet, Considerations sur le dogme générateur de la piété catholique, 5th ed. (Paris: Librairie de Piété et d’Éducation d’Auguste Vaton, Éditeur, 1853 [1829]), 9, as quoted in François Laplanche, "La notion de«science catholique»: ses origins audébut du XIXe siècle," Revue d’histoire de l’Église de France 74, no. 192(1988): 75 (63-90), translation mine.
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