The edition to which the references are made in the following pages isthat published by Baudouin in 1826, in seventy-five volumes. Thisedition is to be distinguished from that known as the first Baudouinedition, published 1824-34, in ninety-seven volumes. The extent of thedifference between them, which is entirely in favour of the morevoluminous form, may be seen in M. Quérard’s BibliographieVoltairienne (p. 107). The large number of complete and elaborateeditions of Voltaire’s works, which were undertaken and executed in theyears between the overthrow of the Empire and the overthrow of theMonarchy in 1830, is one of the most striking facts in the history ofbooks.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| PRELIMINARY. | |
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Importance of Voltaire’s name | 1 |
Catholicism, Calvinism, and the Renaissance | 1 |
Voltairism the Renaissance of the eighteenth century | 4 |
His power the result of his sincerity, penetration, andcourage | 6 |
Different tempers proper for different eras | 11 |
Voltaire’s freedom from intellectual cowardice | 12 |
And from worldly indifference to truth and justice | 13 |
Reason and humanity only a single word to him | 15 |
His position towards the purely literary life | 17 |
Enervating regrets that the movement had not a less violent leader | 19 |
The share of chance in providing leaders | 20 |
Combination of favourable circumstances in Voltaire’scase | 22 |
Occasion and necessity of the movement | 24 |
Age of Lewis XIV. entirely loyal to its own ideas | 25 |
Subsequent discredit of these ideas | 26 |
| viiPreparation for abandonment of the old system byDescartes and Bayle | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |