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Letters on England

A work by Voltaire

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    In England, one allowed religion would very possibly make government arbitrary, two would set people at each other's throats; with many, all live in peace, Religious wars are a dreadful folly, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility, By resisting their kings, the English alone have limited royal power and built a government that can do good but is restrained from evil …

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Edition korrents quotes
1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 18942
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

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  1. In England, one allowed religion would very possibly make government arbitrary, two would set people at each other's throats; with many, all live in peace (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Religious wars are a dreadful folly, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility (opens korrents.com)1

  3. By resisting their kings, the English alone have limited royal power and built a government that can do good but is restrained from evil (opens korrents.com)1

  4. In England trade enriched citizens and made them freer, and that freedom in turn extended commerce and the state's greatness (opens korrents.com)1

  5. A merchant who enriches the country is more useful to a nation than a fashionable lord who fawns at court (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Had smallpox inoculation been practised in France, it would have saved thousands of lives (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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