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British Scholar of English Literature and Intellectual History, WW1 British Army Veteran, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and Later President of Pembroke College
: British scholar of English literature and intellectual history. Having served in the British Army during the First World War, he rose to become King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1946 and President of Pembroke College from 1958 to until his retirement in 1964. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #14 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Reason
“Men demanded also to feel at home in this brave new world which Columbus, and Copernicus, and Galileo had opened up to them and to recognize it as "controlled, sustained and agitated" by laws in some way akin to those of human reason.”
Source: "Western Atheism: A Short History," by James Thrower, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2000. Part 2: Western Atheism to the Seventeenth Century, Chapter 7: The Renaissance and the Rise of Science, Page 83.
"Western Atheism: A Short History," by James Thrower, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2000.
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