The Washington times., 1930-01-08
BUST OF VOLTAIRE, BY THE GREAT
SCULPTOR HOUDON, RECENTLY SOLD
IN LONDON.

reproduction Of the head Of voare Dr. Abbots in
seresting question
All intelligence ABOVE the All space below the
entrance the only part Of the bodys machinery.
The dwelling Of the mind is above the Look at the
height Of this head above the
And study the magnificent proportions Of this fine dome
Of thought
This the head Of one the greatest men that ever lived
on EARTH sincerely devoted to the of truth and
fearless in fighting for it.
The nearer the skull approaches perfect sphere better
The sphere the ideal form Of containing the maximum
amount Of matter with the minimum superficial
Most beautifully round is this fine Ivory temple" in
which developed the thoughts that made the world better
and freed men from many
Thought has in this skull inside circular line begin
ming at the top of the and going back to the base Of the
brain at the top Of the neck.
The face below expresses character
There is welldeveloped nose, essential to perfect
large and firm, in old age Voaire nearly if not
qute eighty years Of age when this bust was made
died ct eighty three, in the midst Of his most magnificent
Iiumphs, in Paris
You here the head that contained perhaps as much
formation as the head Of any man that ever lived with the
things that Aristotle dreamed Of
This the head that produced the philosophical dictionary
which intelligent should read slowly reading there in
Il produced the wonderfully humorous "Zadig" which
young people, unacquanted with volaire might get at the
Public Library and read through in short time
This face and brain produced the magnificent fight that
win make votare immortal long after the literary value
his works shall have become dim and have ceased read
them.
n this face you the power and determination that put
through finish the securing Of justice complete pos
gble IN the famous Calas case.
son Of Calas committed suicide He mentally weak
His father old man. accused Of murder for religious
reasons convicted in the face Of evidence and put death
most cruelty being broken the wheel His mother and
sisters were locked up, to remain immured for life.
Fhs old man. Voaire, had personal interest in any
body concerned But when he heard Of the outrageous
tence he said in France had right to smile till that
wrong was rghed far it could be- And he vowed to
rive himself rest until he had freed the window the
6aaer Of Calas and broken and from office the
dees guilty Of the shameful Calas condemnation he kept
MANY have misunderstood, or macously and wilfully
nalgned voltsre They have called him Atheist which is
falae.
Someone who understood his power said of him that he had
tten nnetywo volumes and that the French Revolution
which freed France from kings tyranny starvation and ru-
taIity was Voltaire's ninety.thrd volume.
As much any other he promoted thinking in France
beginning sixty years before the Revolution started
when kings came back to Paris temporarily only to be
Kicked again, the dust Of VOares bones taken from
his tomb and scattered.
But they couldn't scatter destroy his power and the
kings didn't stay
But this magnificent old man DOES stay power in the
werId Of thought %hich b the only important world