I. Changes wrought by Time--Throne and Altar Twin Vultures--The King and the Priest--What is Greatness?--Effect of Voltaire's Name on Clergyman and Priest--Born and Baptized--State of France in 1694--The Church at the Head--Efficacy of Prayers and Dead Saints--Bells and Holy Water--Prevalence of Belief in Witches, Devils, and Fiends--Seeds of the Revolution Scattered by Noble and Priest--Condition in England--The Inquisition in full Control in Spain--Portugal and Germany burning Women--Italy Prostrate beneath the Priests, the Puritans in America persecuting Quakers, and stealing Children--II. The Days of Youth--His Education--Chooses Literature as a Profession and becomes a Diplomat--In Love and Disinherited--Unsuccessful Poem Competition--Jansenists and Molinists--The Bull Unigenitus--Exiled to Tulle--Sent to the Bastile--Exiled to England--Acquaintances made there--III. The Morn of Manhood--His Attention turned to the History of the Church--The "Triumphant Beast" Attacked--Europe Filled with the Product of his Brain--What he Mocked--The Weapon of Ridicule--His Theology--His "Retractions"--What Goethe said of Voltaire--IV. The Scheme of Nature--His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon Earthquake--V. His Humanity--Case of Jean Calas--The Sirven Family--The Espenasse Case--Case of Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde--Voltaire Abandons France--A Friend of Education--An Abolitionist--Not a Saint--VI. The Return--His Reception--His Death--Burial at Romilli-on-the-Seine--VII. The Death-bed Argument--Serene Demise of the Infamous--God has no Time to defend the Good and protect the Pure--Eloquence of the Clergy on the Death-bed Subject--The Second Return--Throned upon the Bastile--The Grave Desecrated by Priests--Voltaire. A Testimonial to Walt Whitman--Let us put Wreaths on the Brows of the Living--Literary Ideals of the American People in 1855--"Leaves of Grass"--Its reception by the Provincial Prudes--The Religion of the Body--Appeal to Manhood and Womanhood--Books written for the Market--The Index Expurgatorius--Whitman a believer in Democracy--Individuality--Humanity--An Old-time Sea-fight--What is Poetry?--Rhyme a Hindrance to Expression--Rhythm the Comrade of the Poetic--Whitman's Attitude toward Religion--Philosophy--The Two Poems--"A Word Out of the Sea"--"When Lilacs Last in the Door"--"A Chant for Death"--