Dictionnaire philosophique (IX)

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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY VOLUME IX By VOLTAIRE EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION THE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE A CONTEMPORARY VERSION With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized New Translations by William F. Fleming, and an Introduction by Oliver H.G. Leigh A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY BY THE RT. HON. JOHN MORLEY FORTY-THREE VOLUMES One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures, and curious fac-similes VOLUME XIII E.R. DuMONT PARIS : LONDON : NEW YORK : CHICAGO 1901 _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. IX THE HOUDON BUST--_Frontispiece_ GENIUS INSPIRING THE MUSES SAMSON DESTROYING THE TEMPLE JOHN LOCKE * * * * * VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IX. PROPERTY--STATES-GENERAL * * * * * PROPERTY. THE HOUDON BUST--_Frontispiece_ GENIUS INSPIRING THE MUSES SAMSON DESTROYING THE TEMPLE JOHN LOCKE * * * * * VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IX. PROPERTY--STATES-GENERAL * * * * * PROPERTY. "Liberty and property" is the great national cry of the English. It is certainly better than "St. George and my right," or "St. Denis and Montjoie"; it is the cry of nature. From Switzerland to China the peasants are the real occupiers of the land. The right of conquest alone has, in some countries, deprived men of a right so natural. The general advantage or good of a nation is th

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