Title page from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. V (Philosophical Dictionary Part 3)

Part of: The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version, in 21 vols. The Works of Voltaire, Vol. V (Philosophical Dictionary Part 3)

Volume 3 of the Philosophical Dictionary with entries from “Fanaticism” to the “Job.” The Philosophical Dictionary first appeared in 1764 in a “pocket edition” designed to be carried about one’s person. It consists of a series of short essays on a variety of topics all of which are tied together as examples of Voltaire’s withering criticism of “the infamous thing” - examples of tyranny and persecution by a privileged orthodoxy in Church and State of those individuals who disagree.