The most memorable critic of ‘Enlightenment’ rationalism was also a visionary moralist. ‘If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent,” that very profound and virtuous ...

‘It all stands pretty fair in my head, nor do I mean to investigate much more about it, but to splash down what I know, in large masses of colours; that it may look like a smoke-and-flame ...

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