From the French Dictionnaire Philosophique, translated by William F. Fleming. The Philosophical Dictionary is not a sustained work, but a compilation of articles contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie. The quality of the articles bear witness to the great genius and intellect of François-Marie Arouet, more known as Voltaire.

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te their reward; for the public to run to this spectacle as to a fair--all this requires that a crime merit this horrid punishment in the opinion of all well-governed nations, and, as we here treat of