The Enlightenment: The Culture of the Eighteenth CenturyIsidor Schneider |
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... Christians had committed , what new provocation could exasperate the mild indifference of antiquity , and what new mo- tives could urge the Roman princes , who beheld without concern a thou- sand forms of religion subsisting in peace ...
... Christians had committed , what new provocation could exasperate the mild indifference of antiquity , and what new mo- tives could urge the Roman princes , who beheld without concern a thou- sand forms of religion subsisting in peace ...
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... Christians were a sect : and if it was natural for every community to respect the sacred institutions of their neighbours , it was incumbent on them to persevere in those of their ancestors . The voice of oracles , the precepts of ...
... Christians were a sect : and if it was natural for every community to respect the sacred institutions of their neighbours , it was incumbent on them to persevere in those of their ancestors . The voice of oracles , the precepts of ...
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... Christians should abandon the temples of those ancient heroes who , in the infancy of the world , had invented arts , instituted laws , and vanquished the tyrants or monsters who infested the earth ; in order to choose for the exclusive ...
... Christians should abandon the temples of those ancient heroes who , in the infancy of the world , had invented arts , instituted laws , and vanquished the tyrants or monsters who infested the earth ; in order to choose for the exclusive ...
Contents
PREFACE 739 | 15 |
Toward a Rational Society | 43 |
John Locke FROM Civil Government | 50 |
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