Quand la populace se mêle de raisonner, tout est perdu (Once the people begin to reason, all is lost). [Voltaire, in a letter to his friend Étienne Noël Damilaville, 1 April 1766]

In his magnum opus Candide, or Optimism (1759), the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire imagines a guileless young hero named Candide who is banished from the idyllic castle of........

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