A

PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY;

FROM THE FRENCH

OF

M. DE VOLTAIRE.

WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BOTH CRITICAL AND ARGUMENTATIVE.

Without Philosophy, we should be little above the animals that dig or erect their habitations,
prepare their food in them, take care of their little ones in their dwellings, and have, besides,
the good fortune, which we have not, of being born ready-clothed.—Vol. I. p. 59.

How charming is divine Philosophy!

Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,

But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,

Where no crude surfeit reigns.-Milton's Comus.

AMERICAN STEREOTYPE EDITION.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY J. P. MENDU M.

1856.