His Latest Book

forrest McDonald

A good deal of nonsense has been written about the Age of Enlightenment, and in the preface to this latest book of his Professor Henry Steele Commager tells us why. The reason, he declares, is that we have been in the habit of viewing the phenomenon from the perspective of the twentieth century rather than that of the eighteenth. If, instead, we study it in its own terms, its significance is readily appreciated.

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forrest McDonald

A good deal of nonsense has been written about the Age of Enlightenment, and in the preface to this latest book of his Professor Henry Steele Commager tells us why. The reason, he declares, is that we have been in the habit of viewing the phenomenon from the perspective of the twentieth century rather than that of the eighteenth. If, instead, we study it in its own terms, its significance is readily appreciated.