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The Spirit of Voltaire / Norman L. Torrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torrey, Norman L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1938]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Searches for Voltaire's inner nature through his humanistic nature of philosophy and by its dependence on the results of experience rather than on logical principles.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I. Introduction
- II. Libertinism
- III. An Emotional Temperament
- IV. Pride and Prejudice
- V. Voltaire and His Friends
- VI. The Final Years
- VII. On Life and Death
- VIII. Deist, Mystic, or Humanist?
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-89752-9
- OCLC:
- 1100433809
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