zamolixis's

Updated: May 5, 2025

History points out to us the most famous legislators as men, who, enriched with useful knowledge they had gleaned in the bosom of polished nations, carried to savages without industry, needing assistance, those arts, of which, until then, these rude people were ignorant: such were the Bacchus's, the Orpheus's, the Triptolemus's, the Numa's, the Zamolixis's; in short, all those who first gave to nations their gods their worship the rudiments of agriculture, of science, of superstition, of jurisprudence, of religion, &c.

baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach - The System of Nature, Volume 2