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]. 4. n'y semblait pas âr'c., did not seem markcd out for such good fortune.

1. 5. /a philosophie. The word philosophie, now restricted in its meaning to metaphysical science, had a much wider signification a hundred years ago, and was applied to physics as well as to psychology, ontology, ethics, and theodicy.

1. 7. L'inqîiisiiion âr^c. The Inquisition, or System of enquiry into hérésies, was founded in the south of France at the close of the I3th century; but it especially flourished in Spain, in the hands of the Dominicans.

1. II. le fanatisme : notice that religious earnestness is always confounded by Voltaire with fanaticism properly so called.