# Toleration and other essays

Author: Voltaire, 1694-1778; McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64858

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Toleration+and+other+essays+Voltaire&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It seems useful, in presenting to English readers this selection of the works of Voltaire, to recall the position and personality of the writer and the circumstances in which the works were written. It is too lightly assumed, even by many who enjoy the freedom which he, more than any, won for Europe, and who may surpass him in scepticism, that Voltaire is a figure to be left in a discreetly remote niche of memory. “Other times, other manners” is one of the phrases he contributed to modern literature. Let us genially acknowledge that he played a great part in dispelling the last mists of the Middle Ages, and politely attribute to the papal perversity and the lingering vulgarity of his age...

## Chapters

- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/toleration-and-other-essays-64858/chapters/18/index.md)