In the second current the spirit of free examination of the Reformation is maintained; but even this free examination is only made, in the intention of those who defend it, to gradually suppress, by an independent criticism, all that Bossuet … Read More
One of the most characteristic productions of the century is De jure belli et pacis (1625) by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), the author of the doctrine of the law of nature, which claims to find universal rules and obligatory for all … Read More
Never has a century, less than the seventeenth century, had confidence in the spontaneous forces of a nature abandoned to itself: the natural man, the one who is delivered without rule to the conflict of passions, where can one find … Read More
