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    Enlightenment · English

    Toleration and Other Essays

    Voltaire

    Toleration and Other Essays, by Voltaire (1694–1778), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    73
    Variants
    73
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Introduction (1)prose
    2. 02Short Account of the Death of Jean Calasprose
    3. 03Consequences of the Execution of Jean Calasprose
    4. 04The Idea of the Reformationprose
    5. 05Whether Toleration Is Dangerous, and Among What Peoples It Is Foundprose
    6. 06How Toleration May Be Admittedprose
    7. 07Whether Intolerance Is of Natural and Human Lawprose
    8. 08Whether Intolerance Was Known to the Greeksprose
    9. 09Whether the Romans Were Tolerantprose
    10. 10The Martyrsprose
    11. 11Of the Danger of False Legends, and of Persecutionprose
    12. 12Abuses of Intoleranceprose
    13. 13Whether Intolerance Was of Divine Right in Judaism, and Whether It Was Always Practised.prose
    14. 14Extreme Tolerance of the Jewsprose
    15. 15Whether Intolerance Was Taught by Christprose
    16. 16The Only Cases in Which Intolerance Is Humanly Lawfulprose
    17. 17Account of a Controversial Dispute in Chinaprose
    18. 18Whether It Is Useful to Maintain the People in Superstitionprose
    19. 19Virtue Better Than Scienceprose
    20. 20Of Universal Tolerationprose
    21. 21On Superstitionprose
    22. 22On the Interpretation of the Old Testamentprose
    23. 23On the Interpretation of the New Testamentprose
    24. 24Article I.prose
    25. 25Article II.prose
    26. 26Article III.prose
    27. 27Article IV.prose
    28. 28Article V.prose
    29. 29Article VI.prose
    30. 30Article VII.prose
    31. 31Article VIII.prose
    32. 32First Impostureprose
    33. 33Third Chief Imposture (which contains several)prose
    34. 34Fourth Impostureprose
    35. 35Fifth Impostureprose
    36. 36Sixth Chief Impostureprose
    37. 37Seventh Chief Imposture On the Supposed Pontificate of Simon Barjona, Called Peterprose
    38. 38Eighth Impostureprose
    39. 39Ninth Impostureprose
    40. 40Article IX.prose
    41. 41The Sermon of the Fifty, Prayerprose
    42. 42Sermonprose
    43. 43First Pointprose
    44. 44Second Pointprose
    45. 45Third Pointprose
    46. 46The Questions of Zapata (Translated by Dr. Tamponet, of the Sorbonne)prose
    47. 47Introduction (2)prose
    48. 48I: Of the Principle of Actionprose
    49. 49II: Of the Necessary and Eternal Principle of Actionprose
    50. 50III: What Is This Principle?prose
    51. 51IV: Where Is the First Principle? Is It Infinite?prose
    52. 52V: That All the Works of the Eternal Being Are Eternalprose
    53. 53VI: That the Eternal Being, and First Principle, Has Arranged All Things Voluntarilyprose
    54. 54VII: That All Beings, Without Exception, Are Subject to Eternal Lawsprose
    55. 55VIII: That Man Is Essentially Subject in Everything to the Eternal Laws of the First Principleprose
    56. 56IX: Of the Principle of Action in Sentient Beingsprose
    57. 57X: Of the Principle of Action Called the Soulprose
    58. 58XI: Examination of the Principle of Action Called the Soulprose
    59. 59XII: Whether the Principle of Action in Animals Is Freeprose
    60. 60XIII: Of the Liberty of Man, and of Destinyprose
    61. 61XIV: Absurdity of What Is Called Liberty of Indifferenceprose
    62. 62XV: Of Evil and, in the First Place, the Destruction of Beastsprose
    63. 63XVI: Of Evil in the Animal Called Manprose
    64. 64XVII: Romances Invented to Explain the Origin of Evilprose
    65. 65XVIII: Of the Same Romances, Imitated by Barbaric Nationsprose
    66. 66XIX: Discourse of an Atheist on All Thisprose
    67. 67XX: Discourse of a Manichæanprose
    68. 68XXI: Discourse of a Paganprose
    69. 69XXII: Discourse of a Jewprose
    70. 70XXIII: Discourse of a Turkprose
    71. 71XXIV: Discourse of a Theistprose
    72. 72XXV: Discourse of a Citizenprose
    73. 73Poem on the Lisbon Disaster; Or an Examination of the Axiom, “All is Well”prose