Voltaire’s histories of two kinds 301 Rousseau’s disregard for history 302 Voltaire’s acute sense 303 His diligence in seeking authentic materials 305 Throws persons and personal interests into the second place 307 Changed view of the true subject matter of history 308 War always an object of Voltaire’s antipathy 311 His distrust of diplomacy 315 Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History 316 Introduction to the Essay on Manners 318 Irrational disparagement of the Jews 319 Panegyric on the Emperor Julian 320 False view of the history of the church 322 Avoids the error of expressing barbarous activity in terms of civilisation 323 Real merit of Voltaire’s panorama 325 He was not alive to the necessity of scientifically studying the conditions of the social union 326 CHAPTER VII. FERNEY. His life at Ferney 329 Madame Denis 329 His vast correspondence 333 Consulted by Vauvenargues, Chastellux, Turgot, and others 334 Complaisance of his letters 336 Sophistical defence of the practice of denying authorship 339 Voltaire’s just alarm for his own safety 340 His Easter communion of 1768 341 Further proceedings with the Bishop of Annecy 342 Voltaire made temporal father of the Capucins of Gex 344 Voltaire’s influence on Rousseau 345 Difference between their respective schools 347 Their rivalry represents the social dead-lock of the time 348 Voltaire the more far-sighted of the two 350 Two signal effects of Rousseau’s teaching 352 Diderot and the Encyclopædia 354 Voltaire’s constant efforts to secure redress for the victims of wrong 357 Calas, Sirven, La Barre 357 Count Lally 358 Admiral Byng 359 His interest in the pretended liberation of Greece 360