Dictionnaire philosophique, volume 03

One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures, and curious facsimiles VOLUME VII E.R. DuMONT PARIS--LONDON--NEW YORK--CHICAGO _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._ LIST OF PLATES--VOL. III VOLTAIRE'S RECEPTION OF MADAME D'ÉPINAY AT LES DÉLICES _Frontispiece_ THE DEATH OF COLIGNY CATHERINE II. OF RUSSIA THE ALMONER AND THE ANABAPTIST * * * * * VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. III CANNIBALS--COUNCILS * * * * * CANNIBALS. SECTION I. We have spoken of love. It is hard to pass from people _kissing_ to people _eating_ one another. It is, however, but too true that there have been cannibals. We have found them in America; they are, perhaps, still to be found; and the Cyclops were not the only individuals in antiquity who sometimes fed on human flesh. Juvenal relates that among the Egyptians--that wise people, so renowned for their laws--those pious worshippers of crocodiles and onions--the Tentyrites ate one of their enemies who had fallen into their hands.…