"The boo from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of Empires."
In 1791 Volney wrote Les Ruines, ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires, an essay on history and philosophy, containing a vision which predicts the final union of all religions by the recognition of the common truth underlying them all.
By contrast, in Paradise Lost, the other instruction on religious philosophy for Frankenstein, not even two elements of the same religion are able to coexist.
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