A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10
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What it is about
Volume 10 of ten of the Philosophical Dictionary. Prophets – Zeal. It closes with 'Toleration', which is what should be remembered from it.
Context and history
The form is the argument: a dictionary is consulted rather than read through, which made it impossible to refute as a whole and easy to circulate underground. Voltaire published it anonymously in 1764 and it was burned in Geneva and in Paris. A note on the edition: the catalogue holds TWO editions of the Philosophical Dictionary — this one in ten volumes and a single-volume Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary. They are not a duplicate: they are different selections and translations, and the articles do not correspond one to one. The original is French.
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One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures, and curious fac-similes VOLUME XIV E.R. DuMONT PARIS--LONDON--NEW YORK--CHICAGO LIST OF PLATES--VOL. X VOLTAIRE'S REMAINS ON THE BASTILLE--_Frontispiece_ THE DEATH OF SOCRATES THE VISION PIERRE CORNEILLE _The WORKS of VOLTAIRE_ _"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._ VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. X. STYLE--ZOROASTER AND DECLARATION OF THE AMATEURS, INQUIRERS, AND DOUBTERS STYLE. It is very strange that since the French people became literary they have had no book written in a good style, until the year 1654, when the "Provincial Letters" appeared; and why had no one written history in a suitable tone, previous to that of the "Conspiracy of Venice" of the Abbé St. Réal? How is it that Pellisson was the first who adopted the true Ciceronian style, in his memoir for the superintendent Fouquet? Nothing is more difficult and more rare than a style altogether suitable to the subject in hand. The style of the letters of Balzac would not be amiss for funeral orations; and we have some physical treatises in the style of the epic poem or the ode. It is proper that all things