The Enlightenment: The Culture of the Eighteenth CenturyIsidor Schneider |
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... common consent to be the standard of right and wrong , and the common measure to decide all controversies between them . For though the law of Nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures , yet men , being biased by their ...
... common consent to be the standard of right and wrong , and the common measure to decide all controversies between them . For though the law of Nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures , yet men , being biased by their ...
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... common laws of their country , equally with the rest . But in governments where the legislative is in one lasting assembly , always in being , or in one man as in absolute monarchies , there is danger still , that they will think ...
... common laws of their country , equally with the rest . But in governments where the legislative is in one lasting assembly , always in being , or in one man as in absolute monarchies , there is danger still , that they will think ...
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... common period of life without accomplishing anything ; when he had felled his timber he could not remove it , nor erect it after it was removed ; hunger in the meantime would urge him to quit his work , and every different want would ...
... common period of life without accomplishing anything ; when he had felled his timber he could not remove it , nor erect it after it was removed ; hunger in the meantime would urge him to quit his work , and every different want would ...
Contents
PREFACE 739 | 15 |
Toward a Rational Society | 43 |
John Locke FROM Civil Government | 50 |
Copyright | |
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient animal Antoine Watteau beauty believe body Calas called cause child Christians Circassia civil common commonwealth constitution creatures DENIS DIDEROT Diderot earth eighteenth century empire Enlightenment evil executive father feel follow force Francisco de Goya freedom French genius Giovanni Battista Piranesi give Greek hands happiness heart human ideas imagination individual innocent Jacques Ange Gabriel Jean Calas judge king labor laws learned legislative less liberty living Lord Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour mankind manner master ment mind Montesquieu moral mother nations nature necessary never observed passions perfect person philosopher PHOTO pleasure political preservation principles produced punishment reason religion Roman Rousseau sense smallpox social society species spirit supreme things Thomas Gainsborough thought tion truth Voltaire whole William Hogarth word Yahoos young