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Toleration and Other Essays

by Voltaire

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2On Toleration — Short Account of the Death of Jean Calas
  3. 3Consequences of the Execution of Jean Calas
  4. 4The Idea of the Reformation
  5. 5Whether Toleration Is Dangerous, and Among — What Peoples It Is Found
  6. 6How Toleration May Be Admitted
  7. 7Whether Intolerance Is of Natural and Human Law
  8. 8Whether Intolerance Was Known to the Greeks
  9. 9Whether the Romans Were Tolerant
  10. 10The Martyrs
  11. 11Of the Danger of False Legends, and of Persecution
  12. 12Abuses of Intolerance
  13. 13Whether Intolerance Was of Divine Right in Judaism, and Whether It…
  14. 14Extreme Tolerance of the Jews
  15. 15Whether Intolerance Was Taught by Christ
  16. 16The Only Cases in Which Intolerance Is Humanly Lawful
  17. 17Account of a Controversial Dispute in China
  18. 18Whether It Is Useful to Maintain the People in Superstition
  19. 19Virtue Better Than Science
  20. 20Of Universal Toleration
  21. 21On Superstition
  22. 22On the Interpretation of the Old Testament
  23. 23On the Interpretation of the New Testament
  24. 24Epistle to the Romans — Article I.
  25. 25Article II
  26. 26Article III
  27. 27Article IV
  28. 28Article V.
  29. 29Article VI
  30. 30Article VII
  31. 31Article VIII
  32. 32Article IX
  33. 33The Sermon of the Fifty
  34. 34Prayer
  35. 35Sermon
  36. 36The Questions of Zapata
  37. 37We Must Take Sides — Introduction
  38. 38I — Of the Principle of Action
  39. 39II — Of the Necessary and Eternal Principle of Action
  40. 40III — What Is This Principle?
  41. 41IV — Where Is the First Principle? Is It Infinite?
  42. 42V — That All the Works of the Eternal Being Are Eternal
  43. 43VI — That the Eternal Being, and First Principle, Has — Arranged Al…
  44. 44VII — That All Beings, Without Exception, Are Subject to Eternal Laws
  45. 45VIII — That Man Is Essentially Subject in Everything to the Eternal…
  46. 46IX — Of the Principle of Action in Sentient Beings
  47. 47X — Of the Principle of Action Called the Soul
  48. 48XI — Examination of the Principle of Action Called — The Soul
  49. 49XII — Whether the Principle of Action in Animals Is Free
  50. 50XIII — Of the Liberty of Man, and of Destiny
  51. 51XIV — Absurdity of What Is Called Liberty of Indifference
  52. 52XV — Of Evil and, in the First Place, the Destruction of Beasts
  53. 53XVI — Of Evil in the Animal Called Man
  54. 54XVII — Romances Invented to Explain the Origin of Evil
  55. 55XVIII — Of the Same Romances, Imitated by Barbaric Nations
  56. 56XIX — Discourse of an Atheist on All This
  57. 57XX — Discourse of a Manichæan
  58. 58XXI — Discourse of a Pagan
  59. 59XXII — Discourse of a Jew
  60. 60XXIII — Discourse of a Turk
  61. 61XXIV — Discourse of a Theist
  62. 62XXV — Discourse of a Citizen
  63. 63Poem on the Lisbon Disaster

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