He survived the Revolution, the Terror, the Empire, Waterloo, the Restoration, and died in 1819, within sight of the Holy Alliance and the Peterloo massacre.

From the birth of Lenglet to the death of Morellet--what an arc of the circle of western experience! No one will ask whether the keen eye, and stimulating word, and helpful hand of Voltaire were wanting to an enterprise which was to awaken men to new love of tolerance, enlightenment, charity, and justice.

Voltaire was playing the refractory courtier at Potsdam when the first two volumes appeared.

With characteristic vehemence, he instantly pronounced it a work which should be the glory of France, and the shame of its persecutors.

Diderot and D'Alembert were raising an immortal edifice, and he would gladly furnish them with a little stone here or there, which they might find convenient to stuff into some corner or crevice in the wall.