Religious Equality

CHAPTER 19

Religious Equality

Memorial to the King “on Toleration”

Endowments

CHAPTER 20

Endowments

Article “Fondation” in the “Encyclopédie”

o found, in the sense in which we are now using the word, is to assign a fund or a sum of money in order to its being employed in perpetuity for fulfilling the purpose the founder had in view, whether that purpose regards divine worship, or public utility, or the vanity of the founder—often the only real one, even while the two others serve to veil it….

PART IV

Correspondence

To Voltaire

To Voltaire

Paris, 24 August 1761

ince I received the letter which you did me the honor of writing to me, a change that concerns me has taken place: I have had the misfortune to be made intendant. I say the misfortune, for in this age of troubles there is no happiness except in living philosophically among our studies and our friends.

Appendix: Miscellaneous Extracts

Great Questions to be Discussed Philosophically.—It seems to me that it is only by treating the matter in its whole length and breadth, and by developing in their natural order all the principles involved, that we can determine what is the best; for it is always with the best that we must concern ourselves in theory.

Index

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Abbé de Cicé, letter to, 67–78

Abbé Gialiani, 493

Abbé Morellet, correspondence with, 494

Abbé Terrasson, Turgot on letters by, 67–78

Abstract and incommunicable essences, 376

Agriculture. See also Farmers advances in, 31

entrepreneurs, 152

return and profits from capital, 37

returns from, 55

scale of and capital, 39

slavery, 370

Alexandria, 333

Ambition, 356

America, savages, 352

American States, 500

American War, 515

Amplifications, 400