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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin

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The Progress of the Enlightenment

Voltaire and his friends represented what might be called the major position of the age. We were discovering, we were destroying ancient prejudice, superstition, ignorance and cruelty. And we well on the way towards establishing some kind of science which would make people happy, free, virtuous. It was really this that was attacked by the persons i were about to discuss next.

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