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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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Harvard University Houghton Library
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A sincere lover of our Protestant establishment both in church and state = Thomas Bray. Consists of Vol. I, Parts 1 and 2; no more published. Each part has a separate titlepage; that to Part 1 reads: 'Papal usurpation and tyranny'; Part 2, dated 1711, has a separate titlepage that reads: 'The history of the old Waldenses and Albigenses; .. ' and is a transation of John Paul Perrin' Histoire des Vaudois. Text in first part is continuous despite pagination. Pp.[1]-2 (lst count) exists in two settings; in one, found as an uncancelled and cancelled leaf, the drop-head title reads: 'Papal usurpation and persecution'; in the second, a cancel, the drop-head title reads: 'A supplemental collection to the Book of Martyrs'.
London: printed by Joseph Downing, 1712. [4], xv, [1],142,161-212, [2], vi,167, [1]p., plates: maps; 2°
