Works of Voltaire

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. How can it have happened that terms are still wanting to express the portal of all the Sciences? The knowledge of numbers, the art of numeration, is not called the one-two; yet the first rudiment Of the art of expressing our thoughts has not in all Europe obtained a proper designation.