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By Voltaire
One does not need great art and skilful eloquence to prove that Christians ought to tolerate each other--nay, even to regard all men as brothers. Why, you say, is the Turk, the Chinese, or the Jew my brother? Assuredly; are we not all children of the same father, creatures of the same God?
- Source
- Toleration and Other Essays (translated by Joseph McCabe), 1912 · Treatise on Toleration, section "Of universal toleration"
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- G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1912 (Knickerbocker Press); Project Gutenberg text, eBook #64858
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From Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration (published 1763), in Joseph McCabe's English translation (1912), in the section headed "Of universal toleration". The second sentence is a question Voltaire puts into the mouth of an imagined objector, and he answers it in the third. Voltaire wrote in French, so this is the translator's wording.