... . First, he untiringly worked to introduce empiricism, as it was practiced by the English, into French intellectual life. Voltaire's most famous book, Candide, a novel which he published in 1759. Although Voltaire is the most representative philosophe of his time, Candide is a strange book in that it attacks many of the assumptions of the philosophe movement. In particular, the novel makes fun of ... those who think that human beings can endlessly improve themselves and their environment. The main character of the novel, Candide, is set adrift in a hostile world and futilely tries to hol...

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