The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau by Patrick Riley

Author:Patrick Riley [Patrick Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 100521572657
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Le passé n'est pour nous qu'un triste souvenir,

Le passé est affreux s'il n'est point d'avenir

Si la nuit du tombeau détruit l'être qui pense.

Mortels, il faut souffrir,

Se soumettre en silence, adorer et mourir (ll, 215–219).

Voltaire quickly recognized that the ecclesiastical authorities might find this ending too gloomy. He therefore inserted “hope” between the final “adore” and “die.” Even this seemed inadequate, and he reworked the ending massively. He now summarizes his difference with the optimists as follows:

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