Kind of surprised I haven't posted this yet.
Sep 4– From Letters on the English by Voltaire (1733)
Summary: Voltaire knows a lot of stuff about England.
Commentary: This veers all over the place. England is both a bastion of freedom, and a horribly oppressive home of slavery. It is a great country, but also a terrible one with holy wars. I appreciate the balance, but the wide range of topics (and opinions within the topics) makes it hard to really say what this is about in any concrete sense.
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