History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe

This study describes the period of great changes in European history – the decline in the belief of magic and miracles and emerging of the new way of thinking which has brought the rise of religious persecution, the gradual secularization of politics and the rise of toleration and rationalism.

Contents:

Rationalism in Europe

On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous

Magic and Witchcraft

On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous

The Miracles of the Church

Aesthetic, Scientific, and Moral Developments of Rationalism

On Persecution

The Antecedents of Persecution

The Secularisation of Politics

The Industrial History of Rationalism