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Philosophical Services
Philosophical Services announces the publication of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary and Peter Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary. The 2007 edition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is an electronic edition (PDF file) of the 1874 edition, edited by Abner Kneeland and published by J. P. Mendum.
The 2007 edition of Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary is also an electronic edition of the 1734-38 2nd English edition published for J. J. P. Knapton, et al. Thomas Jefferson nominated this English translation of Bayle’s Dictionary as one of the first 100 books for the Library of Congress. Bruntiere wrote about Bayle that “To forget Bayle or to suppress him is to mutilate and falsify the whole history of ideas in the eighteenth century.” Lecky, the historian, wrote that Bayle “did more than any previous writer to break the spell which St. Augustine had so long cast over theology” and termed him “one of the most important pioneers of religious liberty.” Robinson, in his work on Bayle, wrote the following: "When he [Holberg] was in Paris just at the beginning of the Regency Holberg found that the press of students wanting the Dictionary at the Bibliotheque Mazarine, the first French public library, was so great that they arrived long before the doors were opened,and almost fought for a chance at the precious volumes.” Finally, Disraeli called Bayle “the Shakespeare of dictionary makers” and “the historian of the human mind.”
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