
Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Roman Church and the Atheistical Materialists
Montezuma said to cortes that the christian religion was all very well for spain, but that take religion might be best for his people. He did make an observation which did shock people. And as i say, it modified the picture somewhat. It did modify the proposition that there werd eternal truths, eternal institutions, eternal values, suitable for everyone everywhere. You had to be more flexible. Perhaps not everywhere, most in most places with due adjustment made for time and place. But if you did that, you could still preserve the foundations of the views of the indictment. A somewhat deeper breach was made by hume in this very intelligent, interesting, amusing and remarkable book
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