Letters on England

Voltaire

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1. INTRODUCTION
2. LETTER I. ON THE QUAKERS
3. LETTER II. ON THE QUAKERS
4. LETTER III. ON THE QUAKERS
5. LETTER IV. ON THE QUAKERS
6. LETTER V. ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
7. LETTER VI. ON THE PRESBYTERIANS
8. LETTER VII. ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS
9. LETTER VIII. ON THE PARLIAMENT
10. LETTER IX. ON THE GOVERNMENT
11. LETTER X. ON TRADE
12. LETTER XI. ON INOCULATION
13. LETTER XII. ON THE LORD BACON
14. LETTER XIII. ON MR. LOCKE
15. LETTER XIV. ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON
16. LETTER XV. ON ATTRACTION
17. LETTER XVI. ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S OPTICS
18. LETTER XVII. ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S CHRONOLOGY
19. LETTER XVIII. ON TRAGEDY
20. LETTER XIX. ON COMEDY
21. LETTER XX. ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES
22. LETTER XXI. ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER
23. LETTER XXII. ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS
24. LETTER XXIII. ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS
25. LETTER XXIV. ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES

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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