Highway to Modernity
Colin Kidd: The British Enlightenment, 8 March 2001
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
by Roy Porter.
Allen Lane, 728 pp., £25, October 2000,0 7139 9152 6 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Allen Lane, 728 pp., £25, October 2000,
“... A central tenet of the current Eurosceptic case resides in the contrast between English pragmatists, blessed with an instinctive distrust of the systems concocted by philosophers, and dreamy Continentals whose chequered histories bear witness to a dangerous addiction to fresh starts, a priori blueprints, legal codification and all the other follies of political rationalism ... ”