Monday, February 6, 2023
Voltaire on the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
[ " In his long poem “On the Lisbon disaster; or an Examination of the Axiom, "All is Well” (1755), Voltaire (1694-1778) laments the death of “a hundred thousand whom the earth devours” and reminds us how fragile human life is and how close we all are to death from “such cruelties of fate” .. " ]
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