The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern WorldThis work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the 18th century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. |
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Epiphany | 13 |
TWO A Trap of Their Own Making | 37 |
THREE The Proper Study of Mankind I | 60 |
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