class="indent">Throws persons and personal interests into the second place

307

Changed view of the true subject matter of history

308

War always an object of Voltaire’s antipathy

311

His distrust of diplomacy

315

Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History

316

Introduction to the Essay on Manners

318

Irrational disparagement of the Jews

319

Panegyric on the Emperor Julian

320

False view of the history of the church

322

Avoids the error of expressing barbarous activity in terms of civilisation

323

Real merit of Voltaire’s panorama

325

He was not alive to the necessity of scientifically studying the conditions of the social union

326 CHAPTER VII. FERNEY.

His life at Ferney

329

Madame Denis

329 His vast correspondence 333

Consulted by Vauvenargues, Chastellux, Turgot, and others

334

Complaisance of his letters

336

Sophistical defence of the practice of denying authorship

339

Voltaire’s just alarm for his own safety

340

His Easter communion of 1768

341

Further proceedings with the Bishop of Annecy

342

Voltaire made temporal father of the Capucins of Gex

344

Voltaire’s influence on Rousseau

345

Difference between their respective schools

347

Their rivalry represents the social dead-lock of the time

348

Voltaire the more far-sighted of the two

350

Two signal effects of Rousseau’s teaching

352

Diderot and the Encyclopædia

354

Voltaire’s constant efforts to secure redress for the victims of wrong

357