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“_Between two servants of Humanity, who appeared eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation. * * * * * Let us say it with a sentiment of profound respect: JESUS WEPT: VOLTAIRE SMILED. Of that divine tear and of that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization._” _VICTOR HUGO._
[Illustration: AT THIS INTERESTING MOMENT, AS MAY EASILY BE IMAGINED, WHO SHOULD COME IN BUT THE UNCLE]
THE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE A CONTEMPORARY VERSION
With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized New Translations by William F. Fleming, and an Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh
A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY BY THE RT. HON. JOHN MORLEY
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT DESIGNS, COMPRISING REPRODUCTIONS OF RARE OLD ENGRAVINGS, STEEL PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES, AND CURIOUS FAC-SIMILES
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XI. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARCUS AURELIUS AND A RECOLLET FRIAR … 64
XII. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BRAHMIN AND A JESUIT … 70
XIII. DIALOGUES BETWEEN LUCRETIUS AND POSIDONIUS … 76
XIV. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND HIS LAWYER … 95
XV. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MADAME DE MAINTENON AND MDLLE. DE L’ENCLOS … 101
XVI. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SAVAGE AND A BACHELOR OF ARTS … 108
—————— A TREATISE ON TOLERATION. [In 1762 Jean Calas, a Protestant of Toulouse, was done to death by torture on the wheel on the false charge of having slain his son, a suicide. His widow and children were put to the torture to extort a confession, in utter lack of evidence. Voltaire devoted years of unremitting labor to agitating the terrible crime and raising money compensation for the victims. His pamphlets aroused substantial sympathy and protests in England and over the Continent. His efforts led to the writing of over one hundred plays, poems, and pamphlets on the case. Voltaire had the satisfaction of witnessing the triumph of his long struggle. He narrates the facts in this Treatise, which expands into a sweeping exposure of the cruelties committed in the name of religion, in all ages and countries.]