“One of the great advantages of our century,” he wrote, “is the number of learned men who can proceed from the thorns of mathematics to the flowers of poetry and who can judge equally well a book of ...
"Voltaire's voice is the voice of the Enlightenment", Ian Davidson states in his prologue, but this biography expands greatly on the image of Voltaire the philosophe, outlining his consuming ambition, ...
A new biography of Voltaire “the man” is long overdue, and Davidson (Voltaire in Exile) has done an admirable job in writing it. Voltaire, né Marie-François Arouet (1694–1778), the personification of ...
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson 448pp, Bloomsbury, £18.99 Famous in his lifetime as a prolific dramatist and a poet, Voltaire is not much read nowadays, even in France ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
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