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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- Two COMPLETE ORIGINAL monthly news magazines, The London Magazine (ENGLAND) dated February and March, 1757. These 2 isues contain the entire 12 column essay titled: "An Essay on the Jews" by the famous French writer Francoise-Marie Arouet who wrote under the pen name- VOLTAIRE. Very long and very detailed essay on the Jewish people by this famous French author !! François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 âe" 30 May 1778 ), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer , essayist , deist and philosopher known for his wit , philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties , including freedom of religion and free trade . Voltaire was a prolific writer, and produced works in almost every literary form, authoring plays, poetry , novels , essays , historical and scientific works, over 20,000 letters and over two thousand books and pamphlets . He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist , he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with John Locke and Thomas Hobbes ) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions . Voltaire, though often thought an atheist , did in fact partake in religious activities and even erected a chapel on his estate at Ferney . The chief source for the misconception is a line from one of his poems (called "Epistle to the author of the book, The Three Impostors") that translates to: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." The full body of the work, however, reveals his criticism was more focused towards the actions of organized religion, rather than with the concept of religion itself. Like many other key figures during the European Enlightenment , Voltaire considered himself a Deist . He did not believe that absolute faith, based upon any particular or singular religious text or tradition of revelation, was needed to believe in God. In fact, Voltaire's focus instead on the idea of a universe based on reason and a respect for nature reflected the contemporary Pantheism , increasingly popular throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and which continues in a form of deism today known as "Voltairean Pantheism." He wrote, "What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that t exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason." In terms of religious texts, Voltaire was largely of the opinion that the Bible was 1) an outdated legal and/or moral reference, 2) by and large a metaphor, but one that still taught some good lessons, and 3) a work of Man, not a divine gift. These beliefs did not hinder his religious practice, however, though it did gain him somewhat of a bad reputation in the Catholic Church . It may be noted that Voltaire was indeed seen as somewhat of a nuisance to many believers, and was almost universally known; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote to his father the year of Voltaire's death, saying, "The arch-scoundrel Voltaire has finally kicked the bucket...." Voltaire was also critical of Muhammad . His play Fanaticism, or Mahomet was âeoewritten in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sectâe; he also referred to Muhammad as âeoea false prophet.âe However, his views on Islam were more favourable. He called him the founder of "a wise, severe, chaste, and humane religion", and also said "The legislator of the Muslims, a terrible and powerful man, established his dogmas with his valor and arms; yet, his religion became benign and tolerant."
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