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Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934) The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776
By Preserved Smith
Copyright 1934
712 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for a return to synoptic writing. The present work was undertaken to supply the need of a synthesis. It... Read more
1. The background and the Character of the Enlightenment 2. Newtonian Science 3. Linnean Science 4. The Place of Science in Eighteenth-Century Thought 5. Philosophy 6. Political and Economic Theory 7. Historiography 8. The Modern Prose Style 9. Poetry and Drama 10. The Propaganda of the Enlightenment 11. Education 12. Religious Reaction and Revival 13. Deism and Skepticism 14. The Decline of Superstition and Persecution 15. Art and Music Bibliography Index
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Preserved Smith
