Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.‘ ( The Spectator, n° 10, 12 March 1711) He imagined a society in which learning and …
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