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Character of Frederick the Great

166

Breaking up of the European state-system in 1740

171

The first shock in 1733

172

Frederick raises international relations into the region of real matter

174

The situation defined

175

Two conceptions of progress

177 From which of them the result of the Seven Years’ War is seen to be truly progressive 180

The Jesuits

181

Their repulse after the humiliation of Austria

182

Frederick’s probable unconsciousness of the ultimate bearings of his policy

184

His type of monarchy

186

He sprang doubly from the critical school

188

Other statesmen affected by this school

188

Injustice of stamping Voltaire’s influence as merely destructive

191

Frederick the Great and France

193

Voltaire’s life at Berlin

194

Maupertuis

196

Collision between him and Voltaire

198

The Diatribe of Doctor Akakia

199

Voltaire’s departure from Berlin

201

The Frankfort episode

202

Unfortunate revelations in the Hirschel affair

206

Relations between Frederick and Voltaire henceforth

207

Voltaire fears to return to Paris

210

Geneva

211

The critical school not specially insensible to the picturesque

212

Voltaire buys Ferney (1758)

215 CHAPTER V. RELIGION. (1) Conditions of the Voltairean attack.

Two elements underlying Voltaire’s enmity to Christianity

216 Failure of Catholicism as a social force 217