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Toleration and other essays

by Voltaire (1694–1778)

Portrait of Voltaire
Nicolas de Largillière · CC0

57 chapters, about 70,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. INTRODUCTION 3,500 words
  2. SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF JEAN CALAS 3,100 words
  3. CONSEQUENCES OF THE EXECUTION OF JEAN CALAS 500 words
  4. THE IDEA OF THE REFORMATION 2,700 words
  5. HOW TOLERATION MAY BE ADMITTED 1,000 words
  6. WHETHER INTOLERANCE IS OF NATURAL AND HUMAN LAW 300 words
  7. WHETHER INTOLERANCE WAS KNOWN TO THE GREEKS 800 words
  8. WHETHER THE ROMANS WERE TOLERANT 1,000 words
  9. THE MARTYRS 4,100 words
  10. ABUSES OF INTOLERANCE 3,000 words
  11. EXTREME TOLERANCE OF THE JEWS 600 words
  12. WHETHER INTOLERANCE WAS TAUGHT BY CHRIST 2,000 words
  13. ACCOUNT OF A CONTROVERSIAL DISPUTE IN CHINA 1,600 words
  14. VIRTUE BETTER THAN SCIENCE 600 words
  15. OF UNIVERSAL TOLERATION 900 words
  16. MY BRETHREN: 3,600 words
  17. MY BRETHREN: 4,300 words
  18. MY BRETHREN: 2,200 words
  19. ARTICLE I. 900 words
  20. ARTICLE II. 400 words
  21. ARTICLE III. 1,100 words
  22. ARTICLE IV. 400 words
  23. ARTICLE V. 1,000 words
  24. ARTICLE VI. 200 words
  25. ARTICLE VII. 600 words
  26. ARTICLE VIII. 2,600 words
  27. ARTICLE IX. 700 words
  28. PRAYER 200 words
  29. SERMON 5,700 words
  30. WISE MASTERS: 6,100 words
  31. INTRODUCTION 300 words
  32. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION 700 words
  33. WHAT IS THIS PRINCIPLE? 300 words
  34. WHERE IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE? IS IT INFINITE? 700 words
  35. V 200 words
  36. VI 300 words
  37. VII 400 words
  38. VIII 300 words
  39. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION IN SENTIENT BEINGS 700 words
  40. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION CALLED THE SOUL 500 words
  41. XI 500 words
  42. XII 300 words
  43. OF THE LIBERTY OF MAN, AND OF DESTINY 300 words
  44. ABSURDITY OF WHAT IS CALLED LIBERTY OF INDIFFERENCE 300 words
  45. XV 500 words
  46. OF EVIL IN THE ANIMAL CALLED MAN 900 words
  47. ROMANCES INVENTED TO EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF EVIL 200 words
  48. OF THE SAME ROMANCES, IMITATED BY BARBARIC NATIONS 400 words
  49. DISCOURSE OF AN ATHEIST ON ALL THIS 300 words
  50. DISCOURSE OF A MANICHÆAN 200 words
  51. DISCOURSE OF A PAGAN 1,100 words
  52. DISCOURSE OF A JEW 900 words
  53. DISCOURSE OF A TURK 400 words
  54. DISCOURSE OF A THEIST 900 words
  55. DISCOURSE OF A CITIZEN 600 words
  56. POEM ON THE LISBON DISASTER; 1,800 words
  57. FOOTNOTES: 200 words

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