It arises, in general, from legislators entertaining too narrow views, or from their extending their regulations beyond the limits within which alone they were intended to operate. Charity which God’s People and the Christians should entertain for each other.įanaticism is the effect of a false conscience, which makes religion subservient to the caprices of the imagination, and the excesses of the passions.
Jewish Children Immolated by their Mothers. The Thirty-two Thousand Virgins, the Seventy-five Thousand Oxen, and the Fruitful Desert of Midian. Were the Jewish Ladies Intimate with Goats?. Jewish Calamities and Great Assassinations. Were the Jews Cannibals? Had their Mothers Commerce with Goats? Did their Fathers and Mothers Immolate their Children? With a few other fine Actions of God’s People. On a few Crosses which befell God’s People. Letters to Joseph, Ben, Jonathan, Aaron, Mathatai, and David Wincker. Singular Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal. Influence of the Passions of Mothers upon their Fœtus. Whether the Persians, the Sabæans, the Egyptians, the Tartars, or the Turks, have been Idolaters, and the Extent of the Antiquity of the Images Called Idols-History of Their Worship. Of bad Actions which have been consecrated or excused in History. History of the Jewish Kings, and of the “Paralipomena.” Of the Method or Manner of Writing History, and of Style. Of Cicero’s Maxim Concerning History, that an Historian should never dare to relate a Falsehood or to Conceal a Truth. Should an Historian ascribe Fictitious Speeches to his Characters, and sketch Portraits of them?. 
Whether Temples, Festivals, Annual Ceremonies, and even Medals, are Historic Proofs. Hermes, or Ermes, Mercury Trismegistus, or Thaut, or Taut, or Thot. VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY Vol. Observations Upon the Extinction of the Greek Language at Marseilles. The Necessity of Believing in a Supreme Being. Story of the Eels on Which the System is Founded. A Calumny on Cicero by Warburton, on the Subject of a Supreme God. Whether pious Frauds should be practised upon the People. What is Understood by Fire Used Figuratively. Of the Different Significations of the Word. Figure, Figurative, Allegorical, Mystical, Tropological, Typical, etc. Letter from a Weaver of Lyons to the Gentlemen of the Commission established at Paris, for the Reformation of Religious Orders, printed in the public papers in 1768. Of the Different Significations of this Word. V (Philosophical Dictionary Part 3) Table of Contents
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