Sunday, June 26, 2022
The Founders of the Modern Spirit
Ernest Renan (1823-1892) The Future of Science (London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891), p. 131:
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The modern spirit, that is, rationalism, criticism, liberalism, was founded on the same day that philology was founded. The founders of the modern spirit are the philologists.
L'esprit moderne, c'est-à-dire le rationalisme, la critique, le libéralisme, a été fondé le même jour que la philologie. Les fondateurs de l'esprit moderne sont des philologues.
