Diccionari filosòfic, volum 10
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
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- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~77.100 paraules · 366 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAVoltaire. (n.d.). A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionari filosòfic, volum 10]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10
- MLAVoltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionari filosòfic, volum 10]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10.
- ChicagoVoltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionari filosòfic, volum 10]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10.
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De què tracta
Volum 10 de deu del «Diccionari filosòfic». Prophets – Zeal. Tanca amb «Tolérance», que és el que se n'ha de recordar.
Context i història
El format és l'argument: un diccionari es consulta, no es llegeix seguit, i això el feia impossible de refutar en bloc i fàcil de fer circular clandestinament. Voltaire el va publicar anònimament el 1764 i el van cremar a Ginebra i a París. Avís d'edició: al catàleg hi ha DUES edicions del «Diccionari filosòfic» — aquesta en deu volums i una altra en un de sol, «Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary». No són cap duplicat: són tries i traduccions diferents, i els articles no s'hi corresponen un a un. L'original és francès.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
early part of the fourteenth century, in the chapel of St. Louis, in the Palais at Paris, every Maundy Thursday night. All the possessed in the kingdom then meet in this church. The convulsions of St. Médard fall far short of the horrible grimaces, the dreadful howlings, the violent contortions, made by these wretched people. A piece of the true cross is given them to kiss, encased in three feet of gold, and adorned with precious stones. Then the cries and contortions are redoubled. The devil is then appeased by giving the demoniacs a few sous; but the better to restrain them, fifty archers of the watch are placed in the church with fixed bayonets. The same execrable farce is played at St. Maur. I could cite twenty such instances. Blush, and correct yourselves. There are wise men who assert, that we should leave the people their superstitions, as we leave them their raree-shows, etc.; that the people have at all times been fond of prodigies, fortune-tellers, pilgrimages, and quack-doctors; that in the most remote antiquity they celebrated Bacchus delivered from the waves, wearing horns, making a fountain of wine issue from a rock by a stroke of his wand, passing the Red Sea on dry ground with all his people, stopping the sun and moon, etc.; that at Lacedæmon they kept the two eggs brought forth by Leda, hanging from the dome of a temple; that in some towns of Greece the priests showed the knife with which Iphigenia had been immolated, etc. There are other wise men who say--Not one of these superstitions has produced any good; many of them have done great harm: let them then be abolished. SECTION II. I beg of you, my dear reader, to cast your eye for a moment on the miracle which was lately worked in Lower Brittany, in the year of our Lord 1771. Nothing can be more authentic: this publication is clothed in all the legal forms.…