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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern

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Denis Diderot
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Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Denis Diderot: life dates 1713 to 1784. Wikidata Q448, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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