In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas

Toleration and other essays (1912)
by Voltaire, translated by Joseph McCabe
In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas
Voltaire389974Toleration and other essays — In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas1912Joseph McCabe
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CONTENTS

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I.
Short account of the death of Jean Calas
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1
II.
Consequences of the execution of Jean Calas
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13
III.
The idea of the Reformation
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16
IV.
Whether toleration is dangerous, and among what peoples it is found
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19
V.
How toleration may be admitted
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26
VI.
Whether intolerance is of natural and human law
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30
VII.
Whether intolerance was known to the Greeks
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31
VIII.
Whether the Romans were tolerant
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34
IX.
The Martyrs
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37
X.
Of the danger of false legends, and of persecution
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47
XI.
Abuses of intolerance
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54
XII.
Whether intolerance was of divine right in Judaism, and whether it was always practised
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58
XIII.
Extreme tolerance of the Jews
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65
XIV.
Whether intolerance was taught by Christ
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68
XV.
The only cases in which intolerance is humanly lawful
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72
XVI.
Account of a controversial dispute in China
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75
XVII.
Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition
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77
XVIII.
Virtue better than Science
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81
XIX.
Of universal toleration
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83

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