1776 was emblematic of the beginning of the end of The Enlightenment, and also the end of Western Civilizational dominance of the Rest.
There are a lot of reasons for that....
The American Rebellion was fully as destructive, for Western Civilization, but on its smaller scale, yet in much the same ways, as would be the much larger French Revolution, only 13 years later.
You can kid yourself about it.
See elsewhere on this blog.
Friday, November 4, 2016
THE CLIMAX OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Palmer thought that the climax was represented both by the triumphant French Republic of 1798, and by the Republic of Terror of 1794, together.
This makes some sense. Yet I would refer to these, analytically as an aftermath, myself.
I would have placed what I consider the end of the Enlightenment as such as the eve of the French Revolution in 1789.
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