ABSTRACT
Voltaire has been called the Apostle of Infidelity. He denied the truths of revealed religion – he desired to subvert Christianity. He disbelieved its divine origin; he was blind to the excellence of its morality –insensible to its sublime tenets. It is easy to make his life one diatribe against the wickedness and folly of such principles and intentions – to. Voltaire’s great war was against the church of Rome, and more particularly against the Gallican church, a which was one of great persecution, bigotry, and misused power. Voltaire had it deeply at heart to put an end to these discussions – to prevent such men as Bossuet and Fénélon from expending their vast talents on unworthy squabbles, and to prevent such men as Pascal and Racine from sacrificing their talents at the altars of superstition.
