Word: durant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his formidable Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his formidable Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism. He finds the whole period marked by "the rise of murderous nationalism and the decline of murderous theologies...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his vast and generally excellent Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism. He finds the whole period marked by "the rise of murderous nationalism and the decline of murderous theologies...
...chronicling the great events that convulsed the century-the religious wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent...