Diccionario filosófico, volumen 10
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- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~77.100 palabras · 366 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAVoltaire. (n.d.). A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionario filosófico, volumen 10]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10
- MLAVoltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionario filosófico, volumen 10]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10.
- ChicagoVoltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 [Diccionario filosófico, volumen 10]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/voltaire/a-philosophical-dictionary-volume-10.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Volumen 10 de diez del Diccionario filosófico. Profetas – Celo. Cierra con «Tolerancia», que es lo que hay que recordar de él.
Contexto e historia
El fondo es la forma: un diccionario se consulta en lugar de leerse seguido, cosa que lo hacía imposible de refutar en bloque y fácil de hacer circular a escondidas. Voltaire lo publicó anónimo en 1764 y lo quemaron en Ginebra y en París. Nota sobre la edición: el catálogo tiene DOS ediciones del Diccionario filosófico —esta en diez volúmenes y un Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary en uno solo. No son un duplicado: son selecciones y traducciones distintas, y los artículos no se corresponden uno a uno. El original es francés.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…