Very cool........... We forget what an important contribution he made.
He identifies the following factors as sources of England’s success. It has a government of laws, not of arbitrary individual wills. Government power is limited by civil liberties and legal equality.
Civil strife, fanaticism, and persecution are limited by means of religious tolerance. Commercial freedom produces a commercial prosperity that allows the individual to serve his own interest in a way that enriches the society at large.
In English society, the arts and sciences are free, respected, and flourishing. For Voltaire, all of these positive qualities are interrelated, each reinforcing the other.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
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