Voltaire, the Banker of the Enlightenment

An injustice is done to the memory of those whoe truly founded this subject, by supposing that voltaire is the true founder of it. Even mortesque, regarded as a father of relativism, and who is supposed, in contrast with dogmatic positivists like voltaire, to have been sensitive to the differences of culture. He knows which painters are beautiful and whish painters are ugly. And he knows that there is a method for discovering this which nobody will ever upset. As you will see, when people look at his journals, they can make judgments exactly as rigorous, as unanswerable, as firm as voltaire.