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1、THESTORYOFCIVILIZATION(tm)Ver.4.87:TheAgeofReasonBeginsDurant,Will&Ariel---------------------------------------------------------THESTORYOFCIVILIZATIONVOLUMESEVENTHEAGEOFREASONBEGINS1961AHistoryofEuropeanCivilizationinthePeriodofShakespeare,Bacon,Montaigne,Rembrandt,Gali
2、leo,andDescartes:1558-1648byWillandArielDurantCopyright(C)1961byWillandArielDurantCopyrightrenewed(C)1989ExclusiveelectronicrightsgrantedtoWorldLibrary,Inc.byTheEthelB.DurantTrust,WilliamJamesDurantEaston,andMonicaArielMihell.ElectronicallyEnhancedText(c)Copyright1994Wor
3、ldLibrary,Inc.DEDICATION-TOOURBELOVEDDAUGHTERETHELTotheReader-IHADhopedtoconcludemysketchofthehistoryofcivilizationwithaseventhvolumetobecalledTheAgeofReason,*07000whichwastocovertheculturaldevelopmentofEuropefromtheaccessionofElizabethItotheoutbreakoftheFrenchRevolution
4、.Butasthestorycameclosertoourowntimesandinterestsitpresentedanevergreaternumberofpersonalitiesandeventsstillvitallyinfluentialtoday;andthesedemandednomerelifelesschronicle,butahumanizingvisualizationwhichinturndemandedspace.Hencethesereams.Whathadbegunasafinalvolumehassw
5、ollenintothree,andoneofthepresentauthors,atanunseemlyage,becomesaprimadonnamakingasuccessionoffarewelltours.Twoofthesethreevolumeshavebeencompletedintheirfirstdraft;onehasbeenrewritten,andithereventuresintoprint.Itproposestocoverthehistoryofeconomiclife,statesmanship,rel
6、igion,morals,manners,music,art,literature,science,andphilosophyinallthecountriesofEurope,andintheIslamofTurkeyandPersia,fromtheaccessionofElizabethI(1558)andthebirthsofBacon(1561)andShakespeare(1564)totheTreatyofWestphalia(1648)andthedeathsofGalileo(1642)andDescartes(165
7、0).Inthisperiodthebasicdevelopmentsweretheriseofmurderousnationalismsandthedeclineofmurderoustheologies.Barringsomelethalsurprisetotheauthorsortocivilization,VolumeVIII,TheAgeofLouisXIV,shouldbereadyin1963;andifdecaypermits,afinalvolume,TheAgeofVoltaire,willappearin1965.
8、Theunifyingthemeofallthreevolumeswillbethegrowthofreason.Thereisnoattempt,inthesevolumesortheirpredeces
