It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Bayle remained in Rotterdam until his death on 28 December 1706 and was buried there in the Waalse Kerk where Jurieu would be buried as well seven years later. 1740)
Selections in English: Pierre Bayle (Richard H. "


Editions
"Pensées Diverses sur l'Occasion de la Comète" (1682) translated as "Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet" (2000) by Robert C.

Pierre Bayle (French: [bɛl]; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary publiPierre Bayled beginning in 1695. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man.