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Excerpt from Posthumous Works of Frederic II, Vol. 12: King of Prussia
IT feefns that philofophy as well as religion is to have its martyrs. Divus Etallondus will rfoon arrive here, patronifed by you and Voltaire, and I will endeavour to fix his fortune in this world, till the period at which, that is after his death, he iball pe1 form. Miracles. It is faid you Frenchmen begin to pronounce the word toleration without horror; but!you begin a little too late. In the age of Louis XIV. The word was not admitted into the theological vocabulary of his confeffor. Malefherbes and Turgot are to do wonders; they are to.be the apol'tles of Truth, who will eafily overthrow Error, but who will have great obfiacles to overcome, rifing from the prejudices of education. 'you know, when we are very good Chrif'tians, we are feldom at the fame time very good logicians; which problem I leave to your algebraic equa tions, for which no doubt they will afford a folution.
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