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A History of Freedom of Thought

A History of Freedom of Thought

By J. B. Bury European History 12/11/2012

Humanity has always enjoyed freedom of thought--but the freedom to express those thoughts, however radical, however threatening to authority, is one that, "has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through lakes of blood."

In this entertaining and highly accessible history of speaking our minds without fear of retribution, Bury explores the concept of civic free thought from ancient Greece and Rome, where a strongly secular society bred open minds, through the constraints of the Mediaeval period and the re-blossoming of intellectualism in the Renaissance, to the scientific rationalism of the 19th century.
This is a stirring defense of reason and erudition that remains all too necessary in a modern world where reason and erudition are still under fire.

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