What is the Enlightenment, and when did it come to an end? Neither are easy questions to answer. The Enlightenment, as a historical phenomenon or a phenomenon of ideas, coalesced into an attempt to rid humanity of rigid superstitions and fanaticism and liberate it from tyranny of every sort. Its first movements were discernible in
As you tour the collection, you will discover Voltaire's inner musings plastered on paper, such as a letter to the king of Prussia, telling him how sick he had been.