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• Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Iv — Part I
• Cannibals.
• Casting (in Metal).
• Cato. On Suicide, and the Abbe St. Cyran’s Book Legitimating Suicide.
• Celts.
• Ceremonies—titles—precedence.
• Certain—certainty.
• Chain of Created Beings.
• Chain Or Generation of Events.
• Changes That Have Occurred In the Globe.
• Character. [from the Greek Word Signifying Impression, Engraving.—it Is What Nature Has Engraved In Us.]
• Charity. Charitable and Beneficent Institutions, Almshouses, Hospitals, Etc.
• Charles IX.
• China.
• Christianity.
• Christmas.
• Chronology.
• Church.
• Church of England.
• Church Property.
• Cicero.
• Circumcision.
• Clerk—clergy.
• Climate.
• Coherence—cohesion—adhesion.
• Commerce.
• Common Sense.
• Confession.
• Confiscation.
• Conscience.
• Consequence.
• Constantine.
• Contradictions.
• Contrast.
• Convulsionaries.
• Corn.
• Councils. Meetings of Ecclesiastics, Called Together to Resolve Doubts Or Questions On Points of Faith Or Discipline.
• Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Iv — Part Ii
• Country.
• Crimes Or Offences.
• Criminal.
• Cromwell.
• Cuissage.
• Curate (of the Country).
• Curiosity.
• Customs—usages.
• Cyrus.
• Dante.
• David.
• Decretals.
• Deluge (universal).
• Democracy.
• Demoniacs.
• Destiny.
• Devotee.
• Dial. Dial of Ahaz.
• Dictionary.
• Diocletian.
• Dionysius, St. (the Areopagite), and the Famous Eclipse.
• Diodorus of Sicily, and Herodotus.
• Director.
• Disputes.
• Distance.
• Divinity of Jesus.
• Divorce.
• Dog.
• Dogmas.
• Donations.
• Drinking Healths.
• The Druids.
• Ease.
• Eclipse.
• Economy (rural).
• Economy of Speech— to Speak By Economy.
• Elegance.
• Elias Or Elijah, and Enoch.
• Eloquence.
• Emblems. Figures, Allegories, Symbols, Etc.
• Enchantment. Magic, Conjuration, Sorcery, Etc.
• End of the World.
• Enthusiasm.
• Envy.
• Epic Poetry.
• Epiphany. the Manifestation, the Appearance, the Illustration, the Radiance.
• Equality.
• Essenians.
• Eternity.
• Eucharist.
• Execution.
• Executioner.
• Expiation. Dieu Fit Du Repentir La Vertu Des Mortels.
• Extreme.
• Ezekiel. of Some Singular Passages In This Prophet, and of Certain Ancient Usages.
• Fable.
• Faction. On the Meaning of the Word.
• Faculty.
• Faith.
• Falsity.
• Falsity of Human Virtues.

COHERENCE—COHESION—ADHESION.

The power by which the parts of bodies are kept together. It is a phenomenon the most common, but the least understood. Newton derides the hooked atoms, by means of which it has been attempted to explain coherence; for it still remained to be known why they are hooked, and why they cohere. He treats with no greater respect those who have explained cohesion by rest. “It is,” says he, “an occult quality.”

He has recourse to an attraction. But is not this attraction, which may indeed exist, but is by no means capable of demonstration, itself an occult quality? The grand attraction of the heavenly bodies is demonstrated and calculated. That of adhering bodies is incalculable. But how can we admit a force that is immeasurable to be of the same nature as one that can be measured?

Nevertheless, it is demonstrated that the force of attraction acts upon all the planets and all heavy bodies in proportion to their solidity; but it acts on all the particles of matter; it is, therefore, very probable that, while it exists in every part in reference to the whole, it exists also in every part in reference to cohesion; coherence, therefore, may be the effect of attraction.

This opinion appears admissible till a better one can be found, and that better is not easily to be met with.