“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred year removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the world it is, and since it was the philosophy of the Eighteenth Century,  heavy with optimism and ambition, whose abrupt revival birthed with recent revolution, so it is only  in the language of the Enlightenment, rich with opinion and sentiment, that those days can be described.” I think it’s […]