Voltaire

by John Morley

[145] Goethe.

[146] Bartholmess, ii. 111.

[147] See Bartholmess, i. 168.

[148] Œuvres de Voltaire, lxxiii. p. 836.

[149] Corr. 1751. Œuvres, lxiv. p. 524.

[150] Corr. 1751. Œuvres, lxiv. p. 453.

[151] See Whewell’s Hist. Ind, Sci. bk. VII. ch. 4, § 7.

[152] Œuvres, lxiv. p. 53.

[153] See Comte’s Phil. Pos. i. 525-529.

[154] It may be worth mentioning that there actually existed in the sixteenth century a French physician, who changed his real name of Sans-Malice into Akakia, and left descendants so called. See M. Jal’s Dictionnaire Critique de Biographie et d’Histoire, p. 19 (1869).