Toleration And Other Essays

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Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Title

Toleration and other essays

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Susan Carr and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Religion -- Controversial literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

64858

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64858

Release Date

March 18, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TOLERATION AND OTHER ESSAYS
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.On Toleration — SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF JEAN CALAS — CONSEQUENCES OF THE EXECUTION OF JEAN CALAS — THE IDEA OF THE REFORMATION — WHETHER TOLERATION IS DANGEROUS, AND AMONG WHAT PEOPLES IT IS FOUND — HOW TOLERATION MAY BE ADMITTED — WHETHER INTOLERANCE IS OF NATURAL AND HUMAN LAW — WHETHER INTOLERANCE WAS KNOWN TO THE GREEKS — WHETHER THE ROMANS WERE TOLERANT — THE MARTYRS — OF THE DANGER OF FALSE LEGENDS, AND OF PERSECUTION — ABUSES OF INTOLERANCE — WHETHER INTOLERANCE WAS OF DIVINE RIGHT IN JUDAISM, AND WHETHER IT WAS ALWAYS PRACTISED. [27] — EXTREME TOLERANCE OF THE JEWS — WHETHER INTOLERANCE WAS TAUGHT BY CHRIST — THE ONLY CASES IN WHICH INTOLERANCE IS HUMANLY LAWFUL — ACCOUNT OF A CONTROVERSIAL DISPUTE IN CHINA — WHETHER IT IS USEFUL TO MAINTAIN THE PEOPLE IN SUPERSTITION — VIRTUE BETTER THAN SCIENCE — OF UNIVERSAL TOLERATION
5. 5.ON SUPERSTITION
6. 6.ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
7. 7.ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
8. 8.EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS — ARTICLE I. — ARTICLE II. — ARTICLE III. — ARTICLE IV. — ARTICLE V. — ARTICLE VI. — ARTICLE VII. — ARTICLE VIII. — First Imposture — Second Chief Imposture — Third Chief Imposture — Fourth Imposture — Fifth Imposture — Sixth Chief Imposture — Seventh Chief Imposture — Eighth Imposture — Ninth Imposture — ARTICLE IX.
9. 9.THE SERMON OF THE FIFTY — PRAYER — SERMON — First Point — Second Point — Third Point
10. 10.THE QUESTIONS OF ZAPATA
11. 11.WE MUST TAKE SIDES; — INTRODUCTION — I OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION — II OF THE NECESSARY AND ETERNAL PRINCIPLE OF ACTION — III WHAT IS THIS PRINCIPLE? — IV WHERE IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE? IS IT INFINITE? — V THAT ALL THE WORKS OF THE ETERNAL BEING ARE ETERNAL — VI THAT THE ETERNAL BEING, AND FIRST PRINCIPLE, HAS ARRANGED ALL THINGS VOLUNTARILY — VII THAT ALL BEINGS, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, ARE SUBJECT TO ETERNAL LAWS — VIII THAT MAN IS ESSENTIALLY SUBJECT IN EVERYTHING TO THE ETERNAL LAWS OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLE — IX OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION IN SENTIENT BEINGS — X OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION CALLED THE SOUL — XI EXAMINATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION CALLED THE SOUL — XII WHETHER THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION IN ANIMALS IS FREE — XIII OF THE LIBERTY OF MAN, AND OF DESTINY — XIV ABSURDITY OF WHAT IS CALLED LIBERTY OF INDIFFERENCE — XV OF EVIL AND, IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE DESTRUCTION OF BEASTS — XVI OF EVIL IN THE ANIMAL CALLED MAN — XVII ROMANCES INVENTED TO EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF EVIL — XVIII OF THE SAME ROMANCES, IMITATED BY BARBARIC NATIONS — XIX DISCOURSE OF AN ATHEIST ON ALL THIS — XX DISCOURSE OF A MANICHÆAN — XXI DISCOURSE OF A PAGAN — XXII DISCOURSE OF A JEW — XXIII DISCOURSE OF A TURK — XXIV DISCOURSE OF A THEIST — XXV DISCOURSE OF A CITIZEN
12. 12.POEM ON THE LISBON DISASTER;
13. 13.FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.Untitled

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