Letters on England
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111
1731
English
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTER I. ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER II. ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER III. ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER IV. ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER V. ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
- LETTER VI. ON THE PRESBYTERIANS
- LETTER VII. ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS
- LETTER VIII. ON THE PARLIAMENT
- LETTER IX. ON THE GOVERNMENT
- LETTER X. ON TRADE
- LETTER XI. ON INOCULATION
- LETTER XII. ON THE LORD BACON
- LETTER XIII. ON MR. LOCKE
- LETTER XIV. ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- LETTER XV. ON ATTRACTION
- LETTER XVI. ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S OPTICS
- LETTER XVII. ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S CHRONOLOGY
- LETTER XVIII. ON TRAGEDY
- LETTER XIX. ON COMEDY
- LETTER XX. ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES
- LETTER XXI. ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER
- LETTER XXII. ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS
- LETTER XXIII. ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS
- LETTER XXIV. ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he then wrote this series of letters in English putting forward his views on the 18th century England, in contrast with the feudal society of his home country, encompassing aspects of religion, politics, sciences, and literature. The book was published in England and the free England received these philosophical, political, critical, poetical, heretical, and diabolical letters with delight, whereas in France, the book was denounced and publicly burnt in Paris as scandalous, contrary to religion, to morals, and respect for authority. - Summary by IstXA
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