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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. In this as in his other works, Voltaire is very concerned about the injustices of the Catholic Church, which he sees as intolerant and fanatical. Last week, around 30, people downloaded books from my site - 9 people donated. I love offering these books for free, but need some support to continue doing so.

You don't need an account and it only takes a minute. You can also support it by buying one of the collections. The great dispute between the ancients and the moderns is not yet settled; it has been on the table since the silver age succeeded the golden age.

Mankind has always maintained that the good old times were much better than the present day. Posterity has well avenged Achilles for Nestor's poor compliment. Lucretius does not hesitate to say that nature has degenerated lib. Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. Horace combats this prejudice with as much finesse as force in his beautiful Epistle to Augustus Epist. In the event that they were, Homer, Plato, Demosthenes cannot be equalled in these latter centuries.

If the ancients had more intellect than us, it is that the brains of those times were better ordered, formed of firmer or more delicate fibres, filled with more animal spirits; but in virtue of what were the brains of those times better ordered? The trees also would have been bigger and more beautiful; for if nature was then younger and more vigorous, the trees, as well as men's brains, would have been conscious of this vigour and this youth.

With the illustrious academician's permission, that is not at all the state of the question. It is not a matter of knowing whether nature has been able to produce in our day as great geniuses and as good works as those of Greek and Latin antiquity; but to know whether we have them in fact.

Without a doubt it is not impossible for there to be as big oaks in the forest of Chantilli as in the forest of Dodona; but supposing that the oaks of Dodona had spoken, it would be quite clear that they had a great advantage over ours, which in all probability will never speak.

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