A Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II: The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776
Preserved Smith, "A Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II: The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138563366 | EPUB | pages: 712 | 1.1 mb
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138563366 | EPUB | pages: 712 | 1.1 mb
The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for a return to synoptic writing. The present work was undertaken to supply the need of a synthesis. It is a map of a large region, not a geological chart of a square mile or the plan of a single city. Its value, if any, lies in its view of the interrelations of large tracts of social and intellectual life, not in the intensive investigation of narrow fields.