This lengthy tribute to Voltaire, delivered by Col. R.G. Ingersoll, celebrates the philosopher's significant contributions to intellectual...
Voltaire
The Romans never condemned a citizen to death, unless for crimes which concerned the safety of the...
Let us compare the criminal procedure of the Romans with ours. With them, the evidence were heard...
This custom, with many others, is derived from our canon law, which denies Christian burial to those...
Confession of sins hath been authorised in all times and in all nations. The ancients accused themselves...
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICAL AND NATURAL LAWS. I call natural laws, those which nature dictates in...
It is not only the common interest of mankind that crimes should not be committed, but that...
If we look into history we shall find that laws which are, or ought to be, conventions...
A sub-mandarin said to the judge: “How long does your excellency wish them to be kept in...
But, as they denied the existence of Purgatory, which it is not permitted to doubt, and which...
When Bishop Alexander and the priest Arius began in the fourth century to dispute as to the...
Wretches that we are, we insult the pagans, yet they never knew our theological quarrels; they have...
Voltaire-François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was a leading scholar and thinker at the period of the French Enlightenment. Voltaire,...