The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age
by John Herman Randall
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Looks at issues such as, the intellectual outlook of Medieval Christendom, the Renaissance, the order of nature in the 17th and 18th centuries, and thought and aspiration in the 19th and 20th centuries.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age
- Original publication date
- 1926
- First words
- The visitor to Rome who leaves the Corso and wanders westward toward the Tiber, through the maze of narrow streets that swarm with the youth and age of the capital of modern Italy, takes inexhaustible delight in tracing on th... (show all)is ever-changing palimpsest in stone the work of the successive generations of Romans whose descendants are to-day in possession of their dwellings.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
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