The Story of Civilization: Volume VII: The Age of Reason Begins

by Will Durant

  87. Discours, Part IV, and Meditations, II, in Selections, 29, 99.

  88. St. Augustine, De Trinitate, x, 10.

  89. Meditations, II, in Selections, 106.

  90. “Rules for the Direction of the Mind,” VIII, in Selections, 69.

  91. Meditations, III, in Selections, 125.

  92. Ibid, 154.

  93. Ibid, 89.

  94. Principia philosophiae, I, xxxix.

  95. Meditations, IV, in Selections, 127.

  96. Discours, IV, in Selections, 30.

  97. En. Br., VII, 249d.

  98. Ibid.

  99. Lévy-Bruhl, History of Modern Philosophy in France, 29.

  100. Discours, in Vartanian, Diderot and Descartes, 16.

  101. Fischer, Descartes, 406.

  102. In Smith, Culture, I, 194.

  103. Smith, D. E, ed., Isaac Newton, 18.

  104. Fischer, 229.

  105. Garrison, History of Medicine, 258.

  106. Selections, 222–47.

  107. Aubrey, Brief Lives, 95.

  108. Fischer, 231.

  109. Fülop-Miller, Jesuits, 124.

  110. Fontenelle, Digression sur les anciens et les modernes, in Fellows and Torrey, Age of the Enlightenment, 57.

  111. Lévy-Bruhl, 33.

  112. Vartanian, Diderot and Descartes, 205 and passim.

  Bibliographical Guide

  to editions referred to in the Notes

  The letters C, P, J, and R after an author’s name indicate

  Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and rationalist respectively.

  ACKERMAN, PHYLLIS, Tapestry, the Mirror of Civilization, Oxford University Press, 1933.

  ACTON, JOHN E., LORD (C), Lectures on Modern History, London, 1950.

  ADAMS, BROOKS (P), Law of Civilization and Decay, New York, 1921.

  ADDISON, JULIA, Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages, Boston, 1908.

  ALLEN, J. W. (P), English Political Thought, 1603 to 1660, London, 1938.

  ALLEN, J. W. (P), History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century, London, 1951.

  ALTAMIRA, RAFAEL, History of Spain, tr. Muna Lee, New York, 1955.

  ALTAMIRA, RAFAEL, History of Spanish Civilization, tr. P. Volkov, London, 1930.

  ARISTOTLE, Poetics, Loeb Classical Library, London, 1922.

  ARMSTRONG, EDWARD (P), The Emperor Charles V, 2v., London, 1910.

  ARNOLD, SIR THOMAS W., Painting in Islam, Oxford U. P., 1928.

  ASCHAM, ROGER (P), The Scholemaster, London, 1863.

  AUBREY’S Brief Lives, ed. O. L. Dick, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1957.

  BACON, FRANCIS, Philosophical Works, ed. J. M. Robertson, London, 1905.

  BACON, FRANCIS, Works, ed. Spedding, Ellis, and Heath, 6v., London, 1870.

  BAEDEKER, KARL, Belgique et Hollande, Paris, 1910.

  BAIN, F. W. (P), Christina, Queen of Sweden, London, 1890.

  BAKELESS, JOHN, The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe, Harvard University Press, 1942.

  BARINE, ARVÈDE, La Grande Mademoiselle, tr. Helen Meyer, New York, 1902.

  BASKERVILLE, HELTZEL, and NETHERCOT, Elizabethan and Stuart Plays, New York, 1950.

  BATIFFOL, LOUIS, The Century of the Renaissance, New York, 1935.

  BEARD, CHARLES, Towards Civilization, New York, 1930.

  BEARD, MIRIAM, History of the Business Man, New York, 1938.

  BELL, AUBREY, Cervantes, University of Oklahoma Press, 1947.

  BELL, A UBREY, Portuguese Literature, Oxford U. P., 1922.

  BELL, E. T., Men of Mathematics, New York, 1937.

  BELLOC, HILAIRE (C), How the Reformation Happened, London, 1950.

  BELLOC, HILAIRE (C), Paris, New York, 1907.

  BELLOC, HILAIRE (C), Richelieu, New York, 1929.

  BERNAL, J. D. (R), Science in History, London, 1957.

  BERRY, ARTHUR, Short History of Astronomy, New York, 1909.

  BISHOP, A. T., Renaissance Architecture of England, New York, 1938.

  BLOK, P. J. (P), History of the People of the Netherlands, 3v., New York, 1898.

  BLOMFIELD, SIR REGINALD, History of French Architecture from the Reign of Charles VIII till the Death of Mazarin, 2v., London, 1911.

  BLOMFIELD, SIR REGINALD, Short History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500–1800, London, 1923.

  BOAS, FREDERICK, Marlowe and His Circle, Oxford U. P., 1929.

  BODIN, JEAN, Method for the Easy Comprehension of History, Columbia University Press, 1945.

  BOULENGER, JACQUES, The Seventeenth Century, New York, 1920.

  BOULTING, W., Tasso and His Times, London, 1907.

  BOURNE, H. R. Fox, Sir Philip Sidney, New York, 1891.

  BOWEN, CATHERINE DRINKER, The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, New York, 1956.

  BRADBROOK, M. C., The School of Night: A Study in the Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Raleigh, Cambridge U. P., England, 1936.

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  BRANTÔME, SEIGNEUR DE, Lives of Gallant Ladies, London, 1943.

  BROCKELMANN, CARL, History of the Islamic Peoples, New York, 1947.

  BROCKWAY, WALLACE, and WEINSTOCK, HERBERT, The Opera, New York, 1941.

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  BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, Religio Medici, Everyman’s Library, 1951.

  BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, Works, 6v., London, 1928.

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  BUCHAN, JOHN, Oliver Cromwell, Boston, 1934.

  BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (R), Introduction to the History of Civilization in England, 4v., New York, 1913.

  BUPAL, PHILIPPE, Bernard Palissy, Paris, n.d.

  BURCKHARDT, JACOB, Recollections of Rubens, Oxford U. P., 1950.

  BURNEY, CHARLES, General History of Music, 2v., New York, 1957.

  BURTON, ROBERT, Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 1924.

  BURY, J. B. (R), History of Freedom of Thought, Home University Library, New York, n.d.

  BUTTERFIELD, H., The Origins of Modern Science, New York, 1951.

  CAFFIN, C. H., The Story of Spanish Painting, New York, 1910.

  CALVERT, ALBERT, The Escorial, London, 1907.

  CALVERT, ALBERT, Royal Palaces of Spain, London, 1909.

  CALVERT, ALBERT, Seville, London, 1907.

  CALVERT, ALBERT, and HARTLEY, C. G., Veláazquez, London, 1908.

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  Cambridge Modern History, 12v., New York, 1907 f.

  CAMÕES, LUIZ DE, The Lusiads, tr. Leonard Bacon, New York, 1950.

  CAMPANELLA, TOMASO, The City of the Sun, in Ideal Commonwealths, New York, 1901.

  CAMPBELL, THOMAS (C), The Jesuits, New York, 1921.

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  CARLYLE, THOMAS (P), Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, 4v., New York, 1901.

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  CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE, Don Quixote, 2v., Everyman’s Library.

  CERVANTES, Three Exemplary Novels, tr. Samuel Putnam, New York, 1950.

  CHAMBERS, E. K., The Elizabethan Stage, 4v., Oxford U. P., 1951.

  CHAMBERS, E. K., William Shakespeare, 2v., Oxford U. P., 1930.

  CHARDIN, JEAN, Travels in Persia, London, 1927.

  CHARRON, PIERRE, Of Wisdom, tr. George Stanhope, 3v., London, 1729.

  CHENEY, SHELDON, A World History of Art, New York, 1937.

  CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF, Letters to His Son, New York, 1901.

  CHURCH, R. W., Spenser, New York, 1879.
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  CHUTE, MARCHETTE, Ben Jonson of Westminster, New York, 1953.

  CHUTE, MARCHETTE, Shakespeare of London, New York, 1953.

  CLARENDON, EARL OF, History of the Rebellion, 8v., Oxford, 1826.

  CLARK, BARRETT H., Great Short Biographies of the World, New York, 1928.

  CLARK, G. N., The Seventeenth Century, Oxford U. P., 1929.

  COKER, F. W., Readings in Political Philosophy, New York, 1938.

  COOPER, LANE, Aristotle, Galileo, and the Tower of Pisa, Ithaca, N. Y., 1935.

  CORNEILLE, PIERRE, Théâtre, 2v., Paris, 1950.

  COXE, WM. (P), History of the House of Austria, 3v., London, 1847.

  CRAIG, HARDIN, The Enchanted Glass, Oxford, 1952.

  CRAVEN, THOMAS, A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, New York, 1952.

  CREIGHTON, MANDELL (P), Queen Elizabeth, London, 1927.

  CROCE, BENEDETTO, Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Corneille, New York, 1920.

  D’ALTON, REV. E. A., History of Ireland, 6v., Dublin, n.d.

  DAMPIER, SIR WILLIAM CECIL, History of Science, Cambridge U. P., 1948.

  DAVIES, GERALD S., Frans Hals, London, 1902.

  DAVIES, R. TREVOR, The Golden Age of Spain, London, 1954.

  DAY, CLIVE, History of Commerce, London, 1926.

  DENOIRESTERRES, GUSTAV, Voltaire et la société francaise au xviiime siècle, 8v., Paris, 1871.

  DESCARTES, RENÉ, Meditations, Chicago, 1925.

  DESCARTES, Selections, New York, 1927.

  DESJARDINS, PAUL, Poussin, Paris, n.d.

  DIEULAFOY, MARCEL, Art in Spain and Portugal, New York, 1913.

  DIMAND, M. S., Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting, New York, 1933.

  DISRAELI, ISAAC, Curiosities of Literature, 3v., London, n.d.

  DONNE, JOHN, Poems, Everyman’s Library.

  DOWDEN, EDWARD (P), Michel de Montaigne, Philadelphia, 1906.

  DU DEFFAND, MME., Lettres à Voltaire, Paris, 1922.

  DUNNING, W. A., History of Political Theories from Luther to Montesquieu, New York, 1905.

  EDDY, SHERWOOD, The Challenge of Europe, New York, 1933.

  EINSTEIN, LEWIS, The Italian Renaissance in England, Columbia University Press, 1935.

  ELLIS, HAVELOCK, The Soul of Spain, Boston, 1937.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed.

  EVELYN, JOHN, Diary, 2v., Everyman’s Library.

  FAGUET, EMILE, Dix-septième Siècle: études et portraits littéraires, Paris, n.d.

  FELLOWS, OTIS, and TORREY, NORMAN (R), The Age of Enlightenment, New York, 1942.

  FIGGIS, J. N. (P), From Gerson to Grotius, Cambridge U. P., 1916.

  FIRTH, SIR CHARLES, Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England, Oxford U. P., 1953.

  FISCHER, KUNO, Descartes and His School, London, 1887.

  FITZMAURICE-KELLY, JAMES, History of Spanish Literature, New York, 1928.

  FITZMAURICE-KELLY, JAMES, Some Masters of Spanish Verse, Oxford, 1928.

  FLETCHER, C. R. L., Gustavus Adolphus, London, 1890.

  FLORINSKY, MICHAEL T., Russia: A History and an Interpretation, 2v., New York, 1955.

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  FOSDICK, HARRY EMERSON (P), ed., Great Voices of the Reformation, New York, 1952.

  FRAME, D. M., Montaigne in France, New York, 1940.

  FRANCE, ANATOLE, The Elm-Tree on the Mall, New York, 1910.

  FRANCE, ANATOLE, The Gods Are Athirst, New York, 1913.

  FRENCH, ALLEN (P), Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval, Boston, 1955.

  FRIEDELL, EGON (R), Cultural History of the Modern Age, New York, 1930.

  FROUDE, J. A. (P), Reign of Elizabeth, 5v., Everyman’s Library.

  FROUDE, J. A. (P), Reign of Henry VIII, 3v., Everyman’s Library.

  FÜLOP-MILLER, RENÉ, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, New York, 1930.

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  GADE, J. A., Life and Times of Tycho Brahe, Princeton, 1947.

  GALILEI, GALILEO, Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, tr. Stillman Drake, University of California Press, 1953.

  GALILEI, GALILEO, Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences, tr. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio, New York, 1914.

  GALILEO, Discoveries and Opinions, tr. and ed. by Stillman Drake, Garden City, N. Y., 1957.

  GARDINER, SAMUEL R. (P), History of England 1603–42, 10v., London, 1889–93.

  GARNETT, RICHARD, History of Italian Literature, New York, 1898.

  GARNETT, RICHARD, and GOSSE, EDMUND, English Literature, 4v., New York, 1908.

  GARRISON, F., History of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1929.

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  GEYL, P. (P), Revolt of the Netherlands, London, 1945.

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  GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, tr. Thomas Carlyle, New York, 1901.

  GOLDSCHEIDER, LUDWIG, El Greco, Phaidon ed., Oxford U. P., 1938.

  GOOCH, G. P., English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge U. P., 1927.

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  GROTIUS, HUGO, Rights of War and Peace, New York, 1901.

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