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The making of the modern mind : a survey of the intellectual background of the present age

x, 653 pages ; 21 cm · Surveys the intellectual background of man from medieval times through the Renaissance to modern times · "References" and "Selected reading lists" at end of most of the chapters · Introduction -- The intellectual outlook of medieval Christendom -- The coming of age of the western peoples -- The world as the scene of the drama of salvation -- The chief end of man--The enjoyment of eternal life -- The embodiment--The City of God -- The embodiment--Lay society -- The new world of the Renaissance -- The new interests of the modern age--The natural man -- The religious reaction--The revolt from the medieval Church -- The revolt from feudalism and a united Christendom -- The new interests of the modern age--The world of nature -- The new scene of human life -- The order of nature--The development of thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Newtonian world-machine -- The religion of reason -- The science of man--The sciences of human nature and business -- The science of man--The science of government -- The morality of reasonableness: humanitarianism -- The growing world--Thought and aspiration in the last hundred years -- The romantic protest aga

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