Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… culture. Still, science and faith were not regarded as mutually exclusive at this time. Neither the empiricists nor the Enlightenment natural philosophers were necessarily materialists, atheists or agnostics. Being under the influence of the … for the elevation of the human soul than in striking it rich by means of hocus pocus. 12 . See Jane Shaw, Miracles in Enlightenment England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006). 13 . Greatrakes attributed 'his success to …
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