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George Walsh on The Enlightenment

Policy@McCombs

CHAPTER

The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason

In place of tutillage was reason, a reason capable of understanding the cosmo. The defining mark of the Age of Reason was precisely respect for and glorification of reason. We may rejoice in this concise age, but we may well be inclined to ask, why was Newton necessary? Why didn't the same thing happen in the Renaissance?

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