# Voltaire

Author: Morley, John, 1838-1923

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40846

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

## Summary

When the right sense of historical proportion is more fully developed in men’s minds, the name of Voltaire will stand out like the names of the great decisive movements in the European advance, like the Revival of Learning, or the Reformation. The existence, character, and career of this extraordinary person constituted in themselves a new and prodigious era. The peculiarities of his individual genius changed the mind and spiritual conformation of France, and in a less degree of the whole of the West, with as far-spreading and invincible an effect as if the work had been wholly done, as it was actually aided, by the sweep of deep-lying collective forces. A new type of belief, and of its s...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Letter xxiv. (pp. 197-202).](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/voltaire-40846/chapters/6/index.md)