Dizionario filosofico, volume 03

Voltaire

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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY VOLUME III 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 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 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--th

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