1·Voltaire's book commanded a wide audience, according to Feingold, because "he was neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but a literary giant aloof from the academic disputes over Newtonian ideas".
根据法因戈尔德的说法，伏尔泰的书吸引了广泛的读者，因为“他既不是数学家也不是物理学家，而是一个远离牛顿思想学术之争的文学巨人”。
2·Thank you, Voltaire.
谢谢你，伏尔泰。
3·Some philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely those persons have made the glory.
有些哲学家，例如伏尔泰诸人，都肯定说干那种事的人恰巧是胜利者。
4·Does he have a view?“Yes”, he says, “and I've never told anyone.But it changes too.” He quotes Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant position, but certainty is absurd.
他说“当然，我没告诉任何人，不过现在也改变想法了”他引用伏尔泰的名言：“怀疑固然不好，但确信更为荒谬。”
5·The perusal of the secular, highly organized, Confucian society so admired by 18th century Enlightenment writers such as Voltaire is now out of fashion.
对现世的仔细研究，以及良好组织结构，使孔子的儒家思想在18世纪的启迪书籍中备受推崇，伏尔泰已经不流行。