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• Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Vi—part I
• Joseph.
• JudÆa.
• Julian.
• Just and Unjust.
• Justice.
• King.
• Kiss.
• Laughter.
• Law (salic).
• Law (civil and Ecclesiastical).
• Laws.
• Laws (spirit Of).
• Lent.
• Leprosy, Etc.
• Letters (men Of).
• Libel.
• Liberty.
• Liberty of Opinion.
• Liberty of the Press.
• Life.
• Love.
• Love of God.
• Love (socratic Love).
• Luxury.
• Madness.
• Magic.
• Malady—medicine.
• Man.
• Marriage.
• Mary Magdalen.
• Martyrs.
• Mass.
• Massacres.
• Master.
• Matter.
• Meetings (public).
• Messiah. Advertisement.
• Metamorphosis.
• Metaphysics.
• Mind (limits of the Human).
• Miracles.
• Mission.
• Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Vi — Part Ii
• Money.
• Monsters.
• Morality.
• Moses.
• Motion.
• Mountain.
• Nail.
• New—novelties.
• Nudity.
• Number.
• Numbering.
• Occult Qualities.
• Offences (local).
• Onan.
• Opinion.
• Optimism.
• Oracles.
• Ordeal.
• Ordination.
• Original Sin.
• Ovid.
• Paradise.
• Passions. Their Influence Upon the Body, and That of the Body Upon Them.
• Paul.
• Persecution.
• Peter (saint).
• Peter the Great and J. J. Rousseau.
• Philosopher.
• Philosophy.
• Physicians.
• Pirates Or Buccaneers.
• Plagiarism.
• Plato.
• Poets.
• Poisonings.
• Policy.
• Polypus.
• Polytheism.
• Population.
• Possessed.
• Post.
• Power—omnipotence.
• Power. the Two Powers.
• Prayer (public), Thanksgiving, Etc.
• Prejudice.
• Presbyterian.
• Pretensions.
• Pride.
• Priests.
• Priests of the Pagans.
• Prior, Butler, and Swift.
• Privilege—privileged Cases.

MOUNTAIN.

The fable of the mountain which, after alarming the whole neighborhood with its outcries in labor, was ridiculed by all present when it became delivered of a mouse, is at once ancient and universal. The company, however, who thus gave way to ridicule were not a company of philosophers. Those who mocked should in reality have admired. A mountain’s being delivered of a mouse was an event as extraordinary, and as worthy of admiration, as a mouse’s being delivered of a mountain. A rock’s producing a rat is a case absolutely prodigious, and the world never beheld anything approaching to such a miracle. All the worlds in the universe could not originate a fly. Thus, in cases where the vulgar mock, the philosopher admires; and where the vulgar strain their eyes in stupid astonishment, he often smiles.