A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays

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Voltaire (1694-1778), novelist, dramatist, poet, philosopher, historian, and satirist, was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment. In this collection of anti-clerical works from the last twenty-five years of Voltaire's life, he roundly attacks the philosophical optimism of the deists, the so-called inspiration of the Bible, the papacy, and vulgar superstition. These great works reveal Voltaire not only as a polemicist but also as a profound humanitarian. Selections include "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, " "We Must Take Sides, " "The Questions of Zapate, " "The Sermon of the Fifty, " homilies on superstition and the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, and his famous "Treatise on Toleration.