“Between two servants of Humanity, who appeared eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation. * * * * * Let us say it with a sentiment of profound respect: JESUS WEPT: VOLTAIRE SMILED. Of that divine tear and of that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.”
VICTOR HUGO.
AT THISINTERESTING MOMENT, AS MAYEASILY BE IMAGINED, WHO SHOULDCOME IN BUT THE UNCLE
EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION
THE WORKS OF
VOLTAIRE
A CONTEMPORARY VERSION
With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and ModernizedNew Translations by William F. Fleming, and anIntroduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh
A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY
BY
THE RT. HON. JOHN MORLEY
FORTY-THREE VOLUMES
ONEHUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT DESIGNS,COMPRISING REPRODUCTIONS OF RARE OLDENGRAVINGS, STEEL PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES,AND CURIOUS FAC-SIMILES