From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1This is the first of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and siginficance of the sources.Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers and offer insights into the major events, movements and personaities of the time. |
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Page 43
The evil that man does falls back on him without changing anything in the system
of the world , without preventing the human species from preserving itself in spite
of itself . To complain about God ' s not preventing man from doing evil is to ...
The evil that man does falls back on him without changing anything in the system
of the world , without preventing the human species from preserving itself in spite
of itself . To complain about God ' s not preventing man from doing evil is to ...
Page 131
But it would be needless to arrange an history of all the base treatment which the
African Slaves are subjected to , in order to shew the exceeding wickedness and
evil of that insidious traffic , as the whole may easily appear in every part , and ...
But it would be needless to arrange an history of all the base treatment which the
African Slaves are subjected to , in order to shew the exceeding wickedness and
evil of that insidious traffic , as the whole may easily appear in every part , and ...
Page 147
That grand umbrageous shadow and image of evil and wickedness , has spread
its malignant influence over all the nations of the earth , and has , by its power of
delusion , given countenance and support to all the power of evil and ...
That grand umbrageous shadow and image of evil and wickedness , has spread
its malignant influence over all the nations of the earth , and has , by its power of
delusion , given countenance and support to all the power of evil and ...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
Copyright | |
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