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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
1764
CONTENTS ... Index
* Preface
* Adultery
* Advocate
* Ancients and Moderns
* Animals
* Antiquity
* Arts
* Astrology
* Atheism
* Authority
* Authors
* Banishment
* Bankruptcy
* Beauty
* Bishop
* Books
* Bouleverd
* Bourges
* Brahmins
* Character
* Charlatan
* Civil Laws
* Climate
* Common Sense
* Concatenation of Events
* Contradictions
* Corn
* Cromwell
* Customs
* Democracy
* Destiny
* Devout
* Ecclesiastical Ministry
* Emblem
* English Theatre, on the
* Envy
* Equality
* Expiation
* Extreme
* Ezourveidam
* Faith
* False Minds
* Fatherland
* Final Causes
* Fraud
* Free-will
* French
* Friendship
* God
* Helvetia
* History
* Ignorance
* Impious
* Joan of Arc
* Kissing
* Languages
* Laws
* Liberty
* Library
* Limits of the Human Mind
* Local Crimes
* Love
* Luxury
* Man
* Man in the Iron Mask
* Marriage
* Master
* Men of Letters
* Metamorphosis
* Milton, on the Reproach of Plagiarism Against
* Mohammedans
* Mountain
* Nakedness
* Natural Law
* Nature
* Necessary
* New Novelties
* Philosopher
* Power, Omnipotence
* Prayers
* Précis of Ancient Philosophy
* Prejudices
* Rare
* Reason
* Religion
* Sect
* Self-esteem
* Soul
* States, Governments
* Superstition
* Tears
* Theist
* Tolerance
* Truth
* Tyranny
* Virtue
* Why?
* Declaration of Admirers, Questioners and Doubters
... LINKS & RESOURCES
GENERAL REFLECTION ON MAN
It needs twenty years to lead man from the plant state in which he is
within his mother's womb, and the pure animal state which is the lot of
his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of the reason begins
to appear. It has needed thirty centuries to learn a little about his
structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It
takes an instant to kill him.
