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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary


New York

CARLTON HOUSE

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




_PREFACE_


This book does not demand continuous reading; but at whatever place one
opens it, one will find matter for reflection. The most useful books are
those of which readers themselves compose half; they extend the thoughts
of which the germ is presented to them; they correct what seems
defective to them, and they fortify by their reflections what seems to
them weak.

It is only really by enlightened people that this book can be read; the
ordinary man is not made for such knowledge; philosophy will never be