Tolerance: the beacon of the enlightenment
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Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789 -- 2. Voltaire (1694-1778), 'Prayer to God', from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763 -- 3. Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot (1713-1784), Philosophical Thoughts, 1746 -- Montesquieu (1689-1755), The Spirit of the Laws, 1748 -- and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 -- 4. Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790 -- 5. John Locke (1632-1704), Letter on Toleration, 1686 -- 6. Diderot (1713-1784), 'Aius Locutius', from the Encyclopédie, 1751 -- 7. Montesquieu, 'On the Enslavement of Negroes', from The Spirit of the Laws -- 8. Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799), 'Minds are not Enlightened by the Flames of an Executioner's Pyre', from Belisarius, 1767 -- 9. Three aphorisms from Diderot, The Philosopher and Marshal ***'s Wife Have a Deep Chat, 1774 -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Émile, or On Education, 1762 -- and Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786) -- 10. Abbé Grégoire (1750-1831), On Freedom of Worship, 1794 -- 11. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), 'Dare to Know', from What is Enlightenment?, 1784 -- 12. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), The Marriage of Figaro, 1784 -- 13. Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), On Tolerance, or A philosophical Commentary on these Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV. 23, Compel Them to Come in, 1686 -- 14. Alexandre Deleyre (1726-1797), 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie, 1756 -- 15. Four aphorisms from Louis de Jaucourt (1704-1779), 'Intolerant', from the Encyclopédie, 1765 -- William Warburton (1698-1779), Essay on Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 1744 -- Rousseau, Émile, or On Education -- and Anon., 'Refugees', from the Encyclopédie, 1765 -- 16. Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783), On the Suppression of the Jesuits, 1765.