In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas

by Voltaire

 (not listed in original)

CONTENTS

page

I.

Short account of the death of Jean Calas ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

II.

Consequences of the execution of Jean Calas ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

13

III.

The idea of the Reformation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

16

IV.

Whether toleration is dangerous, and among what peoples it is found ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

19

V.

How toleration may be admitted ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

VI.

Whether intolerance is of natural and human law ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

30

VII.

Whether intolerance was known to the Greeks ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

31

VIII.

Whether the Romans were tolerant ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

34

IX.

The Martyrs ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

37

X.

Of the danger of false legends, and of persecution ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

47

XI.

Abuses of intolerance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

54

XII.

Whether intolerance was of divine right in Judaism, and whether it was always practised ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

58

XIII.

Extreme tolerance of the Jews ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

XIV.

Whether intolerance was taught by Christ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

68

XV.

The only cases in which intolerance is humanly lawful ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

72

XVI.

Account of a controversial dispute in China ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

75

XVII.

Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

77

XVIII.

Virtue better than Science ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

81

XIX.

Of universal toleration ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

83