The Age of Napoleon. by Durant Flashcards
Madame de Stael / Germaine
Most brilliant woman of the Napoleonic age. She considered only Napoleon and Goethe to have exceeded her intelligence. A royalist and fiercely anti-Bonapartist, she operated a famous Paris salon for intellectuals. The emperor tolerated Germaine her, but he eventually exiled her from the city for her agitations.
Chateaubriand
The Genius of Christianiity, attacks enlightenment’s anti-C bias by highlighting C’s contribution to social order, inspiration to spirituality and morality and art and culture. All this offsets inaccuracies in its dogma.
A tale or The Loves of two savages in the Desert
1774
James Watt sets up first steam engine INA Birmingham area plant
Robert Fulton sails first steamship, the Clermont, from New York to Albany
August 1807
Robert Owen 1771-1858, capitalist with a heart
Limited his return to 5 per cent,sold provisions at cost through his company store, educated his workers, forbade employment of children under 10.
William Paley
Early 1800s….Defended Christianity….wrote bestseller Natural Theology containing “argument from design”…watch found in the forest
Bentham
1748-1832 all-round genius who turned making suggestions to rationalize the haphazard, illogical and unfair system of British law. He proposed the “principle of utility” in lawmaking. The true test of a new law is whether it leads to the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Heracleitus quote
“A man’s character is his fate”
“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”
William Blake
Intimations on Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood
William Wordsworth
Our birth is but a sleeping and a forgetting The soul that rises with us, out life's star Hath had elsewhere it's setting And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, whois out home.
