This thinker used the example of Jean Calas as evidence that all men should be brothers in his Treatise on Toleration.
This thinker used the example of Jean Calas as evidence that all men should be brothers in his Treatise on Toleration. Historiographers credit this thinker's Essay on the Universal History, the Manners, and the Spirit of the Nations for the study of social history. This man frequently used the phrase "Crush the infamy." He popularized the myth of Newton's apple and also fought for inoculation in his Philosophical Letters on the English. He wrote that, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." This author of a Philosophical Dictionary satirized theodicy in a book rationalizing that we "must cultivate our garden." For 10 points, name this Enlightenment wit who wrote Candide.
This thinker used the example of Jean Calas as evidence that all men should be brothers in his Treatise on Toleration.
Voltaire [or Francois-Marie Arouet]