Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire and the Encyclopedists share the views of Rousseau.
They were in effect theencyclopedists of Arab science.
The new spirit was manifested in, and was to some extent caused by, the frequency of communications between Catholics and Protestants or between Catholics and anti-church elements, such as the encyclopedists and Jansenists.
The Encyclopedists and the clergy were equally averse to the old human power which they took to be new.
The votary of the Encyclopedists had witnessed the conversion of La Harpe; he had buried Lebrun-Pindare and Marie-Joseph de Chenier, and Morellet, and Madame Helvetius.
The usual guests were the philosophes and encyclopedists and men of letters--Diderot, Marmontel, Raynal, Galiani.
Although Isidore is not surpassed in comprehensiveness by any one of the line of Roman encyclopedists who preceded him, in the quality of his thought and the extent of his information he is inferior to them all.
The three school treatises of late Roman and early medieval times, written by Capella, Cassiodorus, and Isidore, were all the work of educational encyclopedistsfrom whom nothing of a scientific character could be expected.
He goes back here to the tradition of the encyclopedists of the Roman world, Varro, Verrius Flaccus, Pliny, and Suetonius, by the last of whom he is believed to have been especially influenced.
It is then to the succession of Roman encyclopedists that we must go to explain the method, spirit, and content of Isidore’s Etymologies.
But though the example which was furnished by the Roman encyclopedists was by far the strongest literary factor which influenced Isidore in the composition of the Etymologies, it was not the only one of importance.
Of course, we readily understand that the encyclopedists threw to the four corners of heaven the outworn respect of religious and political tradition.
So effectually was his teaching absorbed by Voltaire and the encyclopedists that he is read no longer; but low as his flame has sunk, he remains one of the beacons lighting us over the lurid threshold of the century of strife.
In fact, Babel and Philology made nearly as much trouble to encyclopedists as Noah's Deluge and Geology.
The monkish encyclopedists of the later Middle Ages added little to these theories.
The second was the rallying point of the Encyclopedists and much frequented by political reformers, but the rare gifts of its hostess attracted many from the great world.
The persecution of the Encyclopedists availed little more than satire had done, in stemming the slowly rising tide of public opinion.
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