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Subject Area: History
Subject Area: Religion
Topic: Progress

William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, vol. 2 [1865]

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History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, vol. 2, Revised edition (New York: D. Appleton, 1919).

Part of: History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 2 vols.


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Lecky discusses the decline in the belief of magic and miracles, the rise of religious persecution, the gradual secularisation of politics, and the rise of toleration and rationalism.

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