Voltaire
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A critical biography of Voltaire by John Morley. Macmillan published the London edition in 1886. Morley treats Voltaire's name as a force in itself. He calls Voltairism the Renaissance of the eighteenth century. Its power, he argues, came from sincerity, penetration, and courage. Voltaire lacked all intellectual cowardice. He also lacked worldly indifference to truth and justice.
A first chapter sets the movement against Catholicism, Calvinism, and the age of Louis the Fourteenth. Descartes and Bayle prepared the ground, on Morley's telling. A second chapter weighs the English influences on the young writer. His birth, the Regency circle, and a famous insult fill its pages. Morley's study became a standard English account of the French thinker.
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| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 573 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |