Voltaire (edited by Abner Kneeland)

Philosophical Dictionary (in 2 volumes bound as one)

J. P. Mendum

Boston

1874

American Stereotype Edition

LII + 408 + 416

$25.00

From publisher's ad: "This is the largest and most correct edition in the English language, having, besides the whole of the London Edition, several articles from a manuscript translated several years since by a friend of Voltaire's, and others translated immediately from the French Edition."

The copyright for this work was held by John Quincy Adams and was registered in 1836.

The 2007 edition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is a digital edition (PDF file) of the 1874 edition, edited by Abner Kneeland and published by J. P. Mendum.

John Morley, in his book simply entitled Voltaire, wrote “When the right sense of historical proportion is more fully developed in men’s minds, the name of Voltaire will stand out like the names of the great decisive movements in the European advance, like the Revival of Learning, or the Reformation.”

Robert Ingersoll, wrote about Voltaire that “he was the greatest man of his century, and did more to free the human race than any other of the sons of men.”

Victor Hugo wrote, in his Oration to Voltaire, that “he was more than a man, he was an age.”

Will Durant, perhaps taking  his cue from Hugo, titled the 9th volume of his 11 volume Story of Civilization “The Age of Voltaire.”