{"id":1288,"date":"2011-09-22T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:39:15","slug":"analects-of-the-core-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/22\/analects-of-the-core-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Voltaire on sages"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apr\u00e8s le tremblement de terre qui avait d\u00e9truit les trois quarts de Lisbonne, les sages du pays n&#8217;avaient pas trouv\u00e9 un moyen plus efficace pour pr\u00e9venir une ruine totale que de donner au peuple un bel auto-da-f\u00e9 ; il \u00e9tait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 par l&#8217;universit\u00e9 de Co\u00efmbre que le spectacle de quelques personnes br\u00fbl\u00e9es \u00e0 petit feu, en grande c\u00e9r\u00e9monie, est un secret infaillible pour emp\u00eacher la terre de trembler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-fourths of the city of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to preserve the kingdom from utter ruin than to entertain the people with an auto-da-fe, it having been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible preventive of earthquakes.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Voltaire, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Candide-Optimism-Penguin-Classics-Voltaire\/dp\/0140440046\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316115325&amp;sr=8-2\">Candide<\/a><\/em>, Chapter 6, English trans. by William F. Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00e8s le tremblement de terre qui avait d\u00e9truit les trois quarts de Lisbonne, les sages du pays n&#8217;avaient pas trouv\u00e9 un moyen plus efficace pour pr\u00e9venir une ruine totale que de donner au peuple un bel auto-da-f\u00e9 ; il \u00e9tait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 par l&#8217;universit\u00e9 de Co\u00efmbre que le spectacle de quelques personnes br\u00fbl\u00e9es \u00e0 petit feu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,3691],"tags":[3713,3915,48728,3714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}