Toleration and Other Essays

by Voltaire

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Toleration and Other Essays is by Voltaire, translated with an introduction by Joseph McCabe. A passage on the selection says it opens with the Treatise on Toleration, which has a mainly historical interest, and that the treatise was published in 1763. A passage on the selection names three Homilies, On Superstition, On the Interpretation of the Old Testament, and On the Interpretation of the New Testament.

One passage says God takes as much care of the idolatrous Ninevites as of the Jews, and threatens and pardons them. The text adds that Scripture shows God not only tolerated other peoples, but took a paternal care of them, and exclaims “And we dare to be intolerant!” A passage asks how Moses, flying with his troops from the land of Goshen, crossed half of Egypt, and says Egypt never had an army of a hundred thousand men, from the first mention of it in historical times.

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Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778), pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, and polemicist. Celebrated for his wit and his campaigns against tyranny and religious intolerance, he produced plays, histories, essays, and tales, of which Candide remains the most widely read.