Generations of reason : a family's search for meaning in post-Newtonian England /
This text recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
©2021 |
| Series: | Yale scholarship online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | This text recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 441 pages) : genealogical table |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300262574 9780300262575 |