Dizionario filosofico, volume 04

One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures, and curious fac-similes VOLUME VIII 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. IV VOLTAIRE'S ARREST AT FRANKFORT _Frontispiece_ OLIVER CROMWELL TIME MAKES TRUTH TRIUMPHANT FRANCIS I. AND HIS SISTER * * * * * VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IV. COUNTRY--FALSITY * * * * * COUNTRY. SECTION I According to our custom, we confine ourselves on this subject to the statement of a few queries which we cannot resolve. Has a Jew a country? If he is born at Coimbra, it is in the midst of a crowd of ignorant and absurd persons, who will dispute with him, and to whom he makes foolish answers, if he dare reply at all. He is surrounded by inquisitors, who would burn him if they knew that he declined to eat bacon, and all his wealth would belong to them. Is Coimbra _his_ country? Can he exclaim, like the Horatii in Corneille: _Mourir pour la patrie est un si digne sort_ _Qu'on briguerait en foule, une si belle mort.…