Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… be on the side of the angels – especially in England where arguments for design retained a strategic role. Whereas in France, the materialist La Mettrie would claim that the study of nature made only unbelievers, the contrary claim of … thanksgiving.' See Benjamin Franklin, Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, And Other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as Now Practised at Paris. Translated from the French. With an … p. 191. 16 . See Brian Cowan, 'Celebrity, Politics and Sociability in Post-Revolutionary England', La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières: L'insociable sociabilité. Résistances et résilience: Tome VI, dir. …
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