This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...we saw, was the outcome of two lines of thought, which were antagonistic to the existing regime. The school of Voltaire and the Encyclopedists broke down the principles of religious and political authority, while Rousseau undermined the idea of caste, upon which society up till the Revolution rested, by his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...we saw, was the outcome of two lines of thought, which were antagonistic to the existing regime. The school of Voltaire and the Encyclopedists broke down the principles of religious and political authority, while Rousseau undermined the idea of caste, upon which society up till the Revolution rested, by his proclamation of the principles of equality and fraternity--principles which, when introduced into literature, gave rise to a new school of writers. In Scotland Burns stands forth as the incarnation of the new spirit. Scotland has never been a selfsufficient, self-contained country. All through her history she has been open to cosmopolitan influences. With France in particular her relations have been specially close. On the intellectual side, the Scotland of the Eighteenth Century drew much of her inspiration from France. Hume owed nothing to the French in the region of ideas, but by tastes and temperament he found himself more at home in Paris than in London. Adam Smith found in Paris congenial souls, and his economic studies bear marks of the French school; in fact, the great Scottish writers of the mid-Eighteenth Century drank deeply of the classical spirit of France. Great is the difference between the Humes, the Smiths, the Robertsons, and Burns. Burns seems to move in a different world from the calm, correct, somewhat frigid writers of the Hume period. What is the explanation? One reason is that the earlier Scotsmen represented the classical spirit of France, while Burns was a child of the Revolution. The classical spirit was nothing if not dignified. Essentially monarchical and aristocratic, the classical spirit was formal in utterance, conventional in style, artificial in tone, more at home in the drawing-room than in the market-place. The creatur...
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Good. 1907. Cloth, octavo, x and 304 pp. Bumping and scuffing to boards. Slight fraying to head and tail of spine. Light foxing to text. (Subject: History of Ideas. )
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