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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

by Voltaire (1694–1778)

117 chapters, about 83,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. _PREFACE_ 200 words
2. NOTE ON A MAGISTRATE WRITTEN ABOUT 1764 800 words
3. NOTE FOR WOMEN 800 words
4. _ANCIENTS AND MODERNS_ 1,300 words
5. _ANIMALS_ 800 words
6. _ANTIQUITY_ 1,000 words
7. _ARTS_ 300 words
8. _ASTROLOGY_ 800 words
9. SECTION I 1,300 words
10. REASONS OF THE ATHEISTS 400 words
11. ANSWER 600 words
12. ANSWER 200 words
13. SECTION II 1,700 words
14. _AUTHORITY_ 300 words
15. _AUTHORS_ 200 words
16. _BANISHMENT_ 300 words
17. _BANKRUPTCY_ 600 words
18. _BEAUTY_ 600 words
19. _BISHOP_ 600 words
20. _BOOKS_ 800 words
21. _BOULEVERD OR BOULEVART_ 200 words
22. _BOURGES_ 200 words
23. _BRAHMINS_ 800 words
24. _CHARACTER_ 900 words
25. _CHARLATAN_ 1,000 words
26. OF CHARLATANRY IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE 600 words
27. _CLIMATE_ 1,000 words
28. _COMMON SENSE_ 600 words
29. _CONCATENATION OF EVENTS_ 1,000 words
30. _CONTRADICTIONS_ 500 words
31. _CORN_ 800 words
32. SECTION I 1,500 words
33. SECTION II 400 words
34. _CUSTOMS_ 500 words
35. _DEMOCRACY_ 300 words
36. _DESTINY_ 1,300 words
37. _DEVOUT_ 200 words
38. _THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY_ 600 words
39. _EMBLEM_ 1,000 words
40. _ON THE ENGLISH THEATRE_ 600 words
41. _ENVY_ 600 words
42. SECTION I 800 words
43. SECTION II 600 words
44. _EXPIATION_ 1,200 words
45. _EXTREME_ 800 words
46. _EZOURVEIDAM_ 200 words
47. _FAITH_ 500 words
48. _FALSE MINDS_ 700 words
49. _FATHERLAND_ 700 words
50. _FINAL CAUSES_ 1,800 words
51. OUANG: 200 words
52. OUANG: 200 words
53. _FREE-WILL_ 1,100 words
54. _FRENCH_ 1,100 words
55. _GOD_ 800 words
56. DEFINITION 100 words
57. FIRST FOUNDATIONS OF HISTORY 400 words
58. OF RECORDS 1,500 words
59. _IGNORANCE_ 800 words
60. _THE IMPIOUS_ 400 words
61. _JOAN OF ARC_ 1,700 words
62. _KISSING_ 1,500 words
63. _LANGUAGES_ 1,900 words
64. _LAWS_ 1,000 words
65. _LIBERTY_ 1,100 words
66. _LIBRARY_ 700 words
67. _LIMITS OF THE HUMAN MIND_ 300 words
68. _LOCAL CRIMES_ 400 words
69. _LOVE_ 1,000 words
70. _LUXURY_ 700 words
71. _MAN IN THE IRON MASK_ 700 words
72. PUBLISHERS NOTE[18] 1,000 words
73. FOOTNOTES: 300 words
74. _MARRIAGE_ 300 words
75. SECTION I 400 words
76. SECTION II 500 words
77. _MEN OF LETTERS_ 600 words
78. _METAMORPHOSIS_, _METEMPSYCHOSIS_ 100 words
79. _MILTON, ON THE REPROACH OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST_ 900 words
80. _MOHAMMEDANS_ 300 words
81. _MOUNTAIN_ 100 words
82. _NAKEDNESS_ 400 words
83. _NATURAL LAW_ 1,300 words
84. NATURE: 800 words
85. SELIM: 400 words
86. _NEW NOVELTIES_ 200 words
87. _PHILOSOPHER_ 800 words
88. _POWER_, _OMNIPOTENCE_ 1,500 words
89. _PRAYERS_ 300 words
90. _PRÉCIS OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY_ 1,200 words
91. _PREJUDICES_ 300 words
92. PREJUDICES OF THE SENSES 200 words
93. HISTORICAL PREJUDICES 300 words
94. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES 200 words
95. _RARE_ 700 words
96. _REASON_ 400 words
97. _RELIGION_ 2,200 words
98. SECTION I 1,000 words
99. SECTION II 300 words
100. _SELF-ESTEEM_ 400 words
101. SECTION I 2,200 words
102. SECTION II 800 words
103. SECTION III 1,300 words
104. ABOUT THE SOUL, AND ABOUT OUR LITTLE KNOWLEDGE 600 words
105. SECTION V 600 words
106. OF THE NEED OF REVELATION 600 words
107. SOULS OF FOOLS AND MONSTERS 700 words
108. _STATES_, _GOVERNMENTS_ 800 words
109. _SUPERSTITION_ 600 words
110. _TEARS_ 600 words
111. _THEIST_ 300 words
112. _TOLERANCE_ 900 words
113. _TRUTH_ 800 words
114. _TYRANNY_ 700 words
115. SECTION II 600 words
116. _WHY?_ 800 words
117. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Author
• Brahmin
• Crime
• Homer
• New Testament
• Prejudice
• Tertullian
• Tyrant

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