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...English drama of the Eighteenth Century," Professor Murray, Harvard...
...Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century philosophers" Professors Becker has attempted "to show that the underlying preconceptions of eighteenth-century though were still allowance made for certain important alterations in the bias, essentially the same as those of the thirteenth century." It is an arresting thesis and it is skillfully handled...
Although the book centers on the "underlying preconceptions of eighteenth century thought" It concludes an illuminating, though necessarily sketchy comparison of the "climates of opinion" of the Middle Ages, the Age of the French Revolution, and today. In making this comparison Professor Becker suggests a whole philosophy of history. "Are we to suppose that the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century, like the French Revolution of the eighteenth, is but another stage in the progress of mankind toward perfection? Or should we think, with Marcus Aurelius, that the man of forty years if he have a grain of sense...
...most willfully tough-minded moods, Professor Becker works within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations...
...House of Representatives is evidently convinced that there is more than one way to skin a eat. The failure, early in the session, to initiate legislation for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was a disappointment to many. But last week the House got at Prohibition in a different way. It cut $800,000 from the funds available for its enforcement, and at the same time provided that Prohibition agents should refrain from the practices of wire-tapping, buying evidence, and spying...