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To a certain extent this was the glorious mark of all the best minds of the epoch; from Voltaire downwards, they were inflamed by an inextinguishable and universal curiosity.
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Morley notes the shared trait of insatiable curiosity among the great minds of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire.
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