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90. Priestley, Memoirs, I, 74, in Buckle, I, 62m.

91. Wickwar, 25.

92.Ibid., 38.

93. Mme. d’Épinay, Memoirs, II, 169.

94. Ibid., 130.

95. Wickwar, 109.

96. Robertson, J. M., II, 272.

97. Grimm, Corresp., Aug. 10, 1789.

98.Ibid.

99. Wickwar, 86.

100. D’Holbach, Le Christianisme dévoilé, in Pomeau, La Religion de Voltaire, 293.

101. Wickwar, 126.

102. Ibid., 135.

103. 127.

104. Phil. Dict., art. “God,” Sec. 4.

105. Morley, Diderot, II, p. 159.

106. D’Holbach, System of Nature, preface, pp. viii-x.

107. Ibid., Vol. I, Ch. ii.

108. I, i.

109. I, ii and viii.

110. I, xiii.

111. I, ix.

112. Morley, Diderot, II, p. 74.

113. D’Holbach, System, I, Ch. xi.

114. Ibid., I, i.

115. Dakin, Turgot and the Ancien Régime, p. 16.

116. Martin, K., 175.

117. D’Holbach, System, II, Ch. vi.

118. Ibid., II, v.

119. I, xiii.

120.Ibid.

121. II, iv.

122. II, v.

123. II, xii.

124. System, appendix, Ch. xxiii.

125. System, I, xiii.

126. Ibid., I, vii.

127. D’Holbach, Morale universelle, Vol. I, Ch. i, in Fellows and Torrey, Age of Enlightenment, p. 362.

128. Ibid., 363.

129.System of Nature, I, xv.

130. Ibid., appendix, xix.

131. System, I, xiv.

132. D’Holbach, Politique naturelle, Part IV, Ch. xxvii, in Wickwar, 182.

133. Éthocratie, Ch. x, in Hazard, 264.

134.Politique naturelle, Part VI, Ch. xiv.

135. Cumming, 112.

136. Politique naturelle, in Martin, K., 188.

137. Ibid., 189.

138. Wickwar, 178.

139. Martin, K., 189.

140. Wickwar, 178.

141. System of Nature, Vol. I, Ch. xiv.

142. Politique naturelle, Part VI, Ch. xxxix, in Wickwar, 212–13.

143.Système social, Vol. II, 151, in Cobban, In Search of Humanity, 166.

144.System of Nature, I, xiv.

145. D’Holbach, Contagion sacrée, 145, in Wickwar, 141.

146. In Mornet, Origines, 103.

147.System of Nature, I, ix.

148.Système social, II, ii, in Cassirer, The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 68.

149.Politique naturelle, Part I, Ch. vi, in Frankel, The Faith of Reason, 71.

150. Mornet, 103.

151. Lanfrey, L’Église et les philosophes, 331.

152. Phil. Dict., art. “God.”

153. Wickwar, 89.

154. Morley, Diderot, 183.

155. Faguet, Literary History of France, 497.

156. Wickwar, 111.

157. Hearnshaw, Social and Political Ideas of… the Age of Reason, 213.

158. Wickwar, 113.

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1. This is what Faguet forgot in one of the most biased essays in French literature; see, e.g., Dix-huitième Siècle, 210.

2. Wade, Studies in Voltaire, 67.

3. Phil. Dict., art. “Emblems.”

4. Noyes, Voltaire, 487.

5. Phil. Dict., art, “God.”

6. Desnoiresterres, V, 167.

7. Pomeau, Religion de Voltaire, 422.

8. Voltaire, Works, VIIb, 82.

9. Mornet, Origines, 82; Torrey, Spirit of Voltaire, 254, 283.

10.Phil. Dict., in Works, VIIa, 62.

11. In Pomeau, 400, and Crocker, Age of Crisis, 385.

12. Parton, Voltaire, II, 432.

13. Pomeau, 159, 183.

14. Lévy-Bruhl, 185–86.

15. Letter of May 20, 1738, in Voltaire and Frederick the Great, Letters, 115.

16. Voltaire, Notebooks, I, 402.

17.Traité de métaphysique, Ch. ix.

18.La Loi naturelle, in Works, Xb, 25–26.

19. Ibid.; Fellows and Torrey, Age of Enlightenment, 424.

20. Bottiglia, Voltaire’s Candide, 108; Mowat, Age of Reason, 36.

21. Letter of Oct., 1753, to d’Alembert, in Desnoiresterres, V, 163.

22. In Torrey, Spirit of Voltaire, 87.

23. Letters of May 24 and Dec. 22, 1757.

24. Voltaire, Oeuvres, ed. Moland, XXXIX, 363. See also Pomeau, 301; Naves, Voltaire et l’Encyclopédie, 53.

25. Naves, 54–57.

26. Ibid., 62–63; Pomeau, 302.

27. Campbell, The Jesuits, 453.

28. Nicolson, H., Age of Reason, 81.

29. In Smith, P., II, 540.

30. Pope, Essay on Man.

31. Parton, II, 215.

32. Voltaire, Romans, I, 165, 169.

33. Ibid., 233.

34. 237.

35. 257.

36. Bottiglia, 249.

37. Pomeau, 318.

38. Martin, H., Histoire de France, IX, 127.

39. Pomeau, 319–21.

40. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Eng. tr., I, 360.

41. Parton, II, 356.

42. Desnoiresterres, VI, 160.

43. “Essay on toleration,” in Voltaire, Selected Works, 78; Pomeau, 325.