youthful history

45

Ninon de l’Enclos, Chaulieu, and the Regency

46

Manner of life from 1716

49

Affront from the Chevalier de Rohan

53

Leaves France

54 Had previously been no more than a vague esprit fort 56

Le Pour et le Contre

57

Freethinking a reality in England

58

Condorcet’s account of the effect of England upon Voltaire

59

Social and political consequence of men of letters

59

Evil effect of this in France

60

Freedom of speech

61

Newton’s discoveries

65

Their true influence on Voltaire

67

Locke

67

Profound effect of Lockian common-sense on Voltaire

70

Contrast between social condition of England and France

73 Voltaire’s imperfect appreciation of the value and working of a popular government 76

Confounds two distinct conceptions of civil liberty

79

A confusion shared by most of his countrymen

79

The Church of England

82

The Quakers

84

Voltaire’s diligence in study of English literature

86

And in mastering one side of the deistical controversy

88

Through the influence of the deists on Voltaire, the genius of Protestantism entered France

91

Limited consistency of Voltaire’s philosophy

93

English deism contrasted with that of Leibnitz and with the atheism of D’Holbach

95 CHAPTER III. LITERATURE.

Most just way of criticising character

98

Some traits in Voltaire

99

Acquaintance with the Marquise du Châtelet