LINKS TO SHORT READINGS NOT IN THE ASSIGNED TEXTS:

Week I   Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan  1651 -- selections on states of nature, war, society

               Madame de Sevigne, Letter to her daughter

Week IV Bossuet Politics taken from the very words of Holy Scripture

Week VI Daniel Gordon, Introduction to Candide

Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (from Handout #7)

Optional: Voltaire's poem on Lisbon Earthquake

Week VII Voltaire Letter to Rousseau

Week VIII

Olympe de Gouge, Preface to Queen Marie Antoinette

Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women