re he was, and lived
there the rest of his life.

The old prisoners were pardoned; but in a little while their places
were taken by new ones. At this time Voltaire was not interested in
the great world--knew very little of religion or of government. He was
busy writing poetry, busy thinking of comedies and tragedies. He was
full of life. All his fancies were winged, like moths. He was charged
with having written some cutting epigrams. He was exiled to Tulle,
three hundred miles away. From this place he wrote in the true vein:
"I am at a chateau, a place that would be the most agreeable in the
world if I had not been exiled to it, and where there is nothing
wanting for my perfect happiness except the liberty of leaving. It
would be delicious to remain if I only were allowed to go." At last
the exile was allowed to return. Again he was arrested; this time sent
to the Bastille, where he remained for nearly a year. While in prison
he changed his name from Francois Marie Arouet to Voltaire, and by that
name he has since been known. Voltaire began to think, to doubt, to
inquire. He studied the history of the church of the creed. He found
that the religion of his time rested on the usurpation of the
scriptures--the infallibility of the church--the dreams of insane
hermits--the absurdities of the fathers--the mistakes and falsehoods of
saints--the hysteria of nuns--the cunning of priests and the stupidity
of the people. He found that the Emperor Constantine, who lifted
christianity into power, murdered his wife Fansta and his eldest son
Crispus the same year that he convened the council of Nice to decide
whether Christ was a man or the son of God. The council decided, in
the year 325, that Christ was consubstantial with the Father. He found
that the church was indebted to a husband who assassinated his wife--a
father who murdered his son--for settling the vexed question of the
divinity of the Savior. He found that Theodosius called a council at
Constantinople in 381 by which it was decided that the Holy Ghost
proceeded from the Father--that Theodosius, the younger, assembled a
council at Ephesus in 431 that declared the Virgin Mary to be the
mother of God--that the Emperor Martian called another council at
Chalcedon in 451 that decided that Christ had two wills--that Pognatius
called another in 680 that declared that Christ had two natures to go
with his two wills--and that in 1274, at the council of Lyons, the